The influence of operation conditions on the degradation of 4-nitrophenol in water by ozone was studied.The reaction between ozone and 4-nitrophenol can be regarded as slow and fast.pseudo first-order at pH2.0 and pH 5.8—12 respectively.The liquid-phase volumetric mass transfer coefficient of ozone in a bubble reactor and the rate constants were determined.The regression equations of kLa and k2 are expressed as follows