doi:10.1016/j.apcato.2024.206948engRuiz-Gutiérrez, A.Lasobras, J.Menéndez, M.Lindane removal by catalytic hydrodechlorinationART-2024-138670Lindane is an organochlorine pesticide, that has caused contamination of soil, water and air. This paper studies catalytic hydrodechlorination as a possible solution to the lindane problem in water streams. Several catalysts were tested. The effects of mass transfer and temperature was studied for a Ni-based and a Pt-based catalysts. A Ni-supported and a Pt-supported catalyst gave good results, but the best catalyst was Pd supported on active carbon, which provided 99% conversion in a few minutes at room temperature. Additional tests allow to discard adsorption instead of a catalytic effect. The amount of hexachlorocyclohexane compounds remaining as adsorbed on the catalyst surface was negligible.2024http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/13548610.1016/j.apcato.2024.206948http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135486oai:zaguan.unizar.es:135486info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FSE/T43-20RApplied catalysis. O, Open 188 (2024), 206948 [34 pp.]byhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess