Abstract:The newly built wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Haiyan County is mainly to treat the papermaking wastewater with high refractory organic matter and high suspended solids. To optimize the advanced treatment process, the small-scale test effects of various advanced oxidation technologies such as activated carbon adsorption, ozone oxidation, Fenton oxidation and three-phase catalytic oxidation are compared and analyzed. The performance of the three-phase catalytic oxidation process is verified through pilot-scale tests. The results show that the COD of the effluent from the three-phase catalytic oxidation is stably maintained below 35 mg/L, meeting the first-level A standard of the Discharge Standard of Pollutants for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (GB 18918—2002), and the chemical cost is 0.86~1.01 yuan/m3 with the good economy. This process has strong adaptability and can effectively deal with the fluctuations in water quality of complex industrial wastewater. After being reasonably combined with the AAO+AO(MBBR) biological treatment and sedimentation unit, this process can effectively remove the recalcitrant organics with stable performance effect and operational simplicity, which has the good engineering implementability. The research shows that the three-phase catalytic oxidation process has broad application prospects in the treatment of refractory industrial wastewater and provides an effective technical solution for upgrading and reconstruction.