A number of water pollution issues caused by antibiotic effluent must be addressed immediately.The persulfate (PS) method is a sort of advanced oxidation process that has the advantages of a quick reaction time and a high oxidation capacity.However, in order to be used efficiently for wastewater treatment, PS must be activated in water.In this study, PS was directly loaded onto the precursor to produce an oxidant that could destroy organic contaminants in water synergistically with O3.The effects of oxidant production circumstances, oxidant dosage, O3 flow rate, PS dose, and pH value on diclofenac (DCF) degradation efficiency were investigated.The results showed that when the initial concentration of DCF was 100 mg/L, the O3 flow rate was 0.4 m3/h, the pH value was 3, and the oxidant dosage was 1 g/L, the S2O82-/Fe2O3-zeolite/O3 system basically completely degraded DCF within 60 min.The EPR and free radical quenching experiments were used to explore the synergistic degradation of DCF by the S2O82-/Fe2O3-zeolite/O3 system.The three possible degradation pathways of DCF were also proposed based on anal. intermediate products anal. with LC-MS.This study identifies potential DCF breakdown pathways and offers a cost-effective and practical multiphase catalyst for the treatment of organic wastewater.