Method of treatment of water effluent with multilayer filter under electric current

A method of treating aqueous effluent from an aqueous stream from at least one of a manufacturing facility, compounding facility or municipal water treatment facility by generating reductive and/or oxidative chemical species in an aqueous fluid stream to decompose natural hormonal or synthetic hormonal contaminants, the method comprising:

• a) providing a filter material comprising at least one porous carbon support layer and a silicate wool or glass wool layer in direct contact with the at least one porous carbon support layer, the porous carbon support layer having distributed halogens or halides within;
• b) passing an electric current through the filter material while directing a contaminated aqueous mass comprising natural hormonal or synthetic hormonal contaminants into contact with the filter material in the presence of the electric current;
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• c) adsorbing the contaminants selected from the group consisting of natural hormonal or synthetic hormonal contamination from the fluid mass onto the filter material in the presence of the electric current, thereby decomposing the contaminants selected from the group consisting of natural hormonal or synthetic hormonal contamination.