A pulsed discharge plasma（PDP） reactor with net anode and net cathode was established for investigating the pyrene degradation in soil under different pulse peak voltage,air flow rate,pyrene content in soil,initial p H value and initial water content of the soil.Pyrene oxidation within the 60 min discharge time was fitting according to the pseudo-first order equation and the corresponding reaction kinetics constants（k values） were calculated.The obtained results show that pyrene oxidation under all the different reaction conditions obeyed the pseudo-first order equation well.Higher pulsed peak voltage and appropriate air flow rate were in favor of the increase of reaction rate of pyrene oxidation.A higher k value could be achieved in the lower initial pyrene content（the value was 100 mg kg^-1）.The k value of pyrene oxidation in the case of p H=4 was 11.2 times higher than the value obtained under the condition of p H=9,while the initial water content of the soil also has a large effect on the oxidation rate of pyrene due to the effect of PDP.
In this paper, a pulsed discharge plasma （PDP） system with a multi-needle-to-plate electrodes geometry was set up to investigate the regeneration of acid orange 7 （AO7） exhausted granular activated carbon （GAC）. Regeneration of GAC was studied under different conditions of peak pulse discharge voltage and water pH, as well as the modification effect of GAC by the pulse discharge process, to figure out the regeneration efficiency and the change of the GAC structure by the PDP treatment. The obtained results showed that there was an appropriate peak pulse voltage and an optimal initial pH value of the solution for GAC regeneration. Analyses of scanning electron microscope （SEM）, Boehm titration, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller （BET）, Horvath-Kawazoe （HK）, and X-ray Diffraction （XRD） showed that there were more mesopore and macropore in the regenerated GAC and the structure turned smoother with the increase of discharge voltage; the amount of acidic functional groups on the GAC surface increased while the amount of basic functional groups decreased after the regeneration process. From the result of the XRD analysis, there were no new substances produced on the GAC after PDP treatment.
