Discharge standards are among the most important regulations to control pollutants discharged from industries and domestic uses. China has made great efforts to build up its discharge standard system and develop methods to derive limits. However, the...
Industrial wastewater and sewage are both important sources of heavy metals and metalloids in urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). China has made great efforts to control heavy metal and metalloid pollution by setting discharge limits for WWTPs...
The escalating water demand in Cyprus has necessitated the exploration of alternative water resources. The available water, which relies on rainfall and dam storage supplemented by methods such as desalination and aquifer enrichment, is inadequate to...
With water availability being one of the world’s major challenges, this study aims to propose a Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system for treating saline effluents from an urban wastewater treatment plant (UWWTP), thereby supplementing into the ex...
Dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma in advanced oxidation technology can degrade organic pollutants in water under mild conditions. It has the advantages of universality, simple reaction conditions, and no secondary pollution. However, the ligh...
Municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Korea collect and treat not only domestic wastewater, but also discharge from industrial complexes. However, some industrial discharges contain a large amount of non-biodegradable organic matter, which...
This article describes the improvement of wastewater treatment in a fertilizer plant located in Central Italy (municipality of Vasto). In this facility, water is used for the removal of dust and fluorinated gases from the air. The resulting wastewate...
31 August 2018
With the rapid economic development, water pollution has become a major concern in China. Understanding the spatial variation of urban wastewater discharge and measuring the efficiency of wastewater treatment plants are prerequisites for rationally d...
Wastewater treatment in a rural region in China was undeveloped both in treatment capacity and legislation. The successful fast development of urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) demonstrated the importance of legislation, including discharge l...
Water pollution control is a great challenge for China. Compared with urban regions, the wastewater treatment in rural areas is much undeveloped, which is highly related with the much delayed legislation for rural wastewater. Imbalanced urban-rural d...
Impacts on wetlands are becoming more pressing every day. Among them, habitat loss, overexploitation of aquifers and changes in land use are considered the most important. However, the impacts linked to wastewater discharges are increasing worldwide....
Clothing, one of the basic needs, demands the growth of textile industries worldwide, resulting in higher consumption and pollution of water. Consequently, it requires extensive treatment of textile effluent for environmental protection as well as re...
High voltage electrical discharge plasma technology (HVED) is considered as a promising technology for wastewater remediation due to its fast removal rate and environmental compatibility. Olive mill wastewater (OMWW) treatment presents crucial enviro...
Nutrient and carbon transport from the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico have been investigated intensively. However, little is known about the direct human contribution of carbon from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to this large river, a...
Assessing the compatibility of industrial discharges with the biological process of a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) may represent a critical task. Indeed, either focusing only on chemical characterization or ecotoxicity tests designed t...
Coal mine acid drainage is a type of industrial wastewater generated in the process of coal production and utilization that has a low pH and contains a small amount of organic matter and SO42−, which is harmful to the environment. The ·OH scavenger w...
Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) is a wastewater management strategy that eliminates liquid waste while maximizing water use efficiency. This article reviews the primary ZLD technologies used for desulfurization wastewater (DWW) treatment in coal-fired po...
Atmospheric pressure gas–liquid discharge plasma has garnered considerable attention for its efficacy in wastewater contaminant removal. This study utilized atmospheric oxygen gas–liquid discharge plasma for the treatment of ammonia nitro...
As the demand for sustainable water and wastewater management continues to rise in both desalination and industrial sectors, there is been notable progress in developing Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) and Minimal Liquid Discharge (MLD) systems. Membrane...
The declining state of municipal wastewater treatment is one of the major contributors to the many pollution challenges faced in most parts of South Africa. Escherichia coli and Chemical Oxygen Demand are used as indicators for the performance of was...
A large amount of mine water is generated during coal production, which not only damages the surface environment and ecology but also wastes groundwater resources in the mining area, exacerbating regional water scarcity. In this work, a novel zero li...
Herein, the alkaline supernatant of a struvite recovery system from municipal wastewater was successfully co-managed with acid mine drainage (AMD). Various ratios (v/v) of AMD to struvite supernatant were examined, and the quality of the passively co...
11 February 2022
In August 2019 and during August/September 2020, the main collection system of the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Warsaw, Poland, malfunctioned. During that system failure, over 4.8 million m3 of untreated wastewater was dropped directly into t...
Advanced oxidation technologies (AOTs) focusing on nonthermal plasma induced by dielectric barrier discharge are adequate sources of diverse reactive oxygen species (ROS) beneficial for water and wastewater treatment. In this study, indigo, peroxytit...
Naproxen is a widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug poorly metabolized in the human body, thus resulting in its presence in domestic wastewaters. It is resistant to conventional wastewater treatment, making new methods necessary. Pulsed co...
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can still be considered point sources of contamination into receiving aquatic ecosystems, especially for many emerging contaminants, which require additional treatments for their removal. In this study, the impact...
Wastewater treatment plants are important reservoirs and sources for the dissemination of antibiotic resistance into the environment. Here, two different groups of carbapenem resistant bacteria—the potentially environmental and the potentially pathog...
Water pollution, which is intensified by the release of hard-to-degrade pollutants, poses severe threats to ecosystems, human health, and economic development. The existing advanced oxidation processes often involve high operational costs and can pot...
The discharge of medical and domestic wastewater has resulted in increasing levels of pharmaceutical pollutants in water bodies. We combined dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) technology with an Fe3⁺/sodium sulfite oxidation system to address t...
The anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) is a decentralized treatment system that is commonly used for municipal wastewater treatment. Slower growth rate of anaerobic microorganisms requires extended hydraulic retention time (HRT), leading to a larger bio...
This work shows the potential of a new way of co-treatment of domestic wastewater (DWW) and a liquid stream coming from the thermal hydrolysis of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) mediated by a mixed culture of purple phototrophic...
The tannery industry is characterized by the consumption of a large quantity of water, around 30–40 m3 for processing 1000 kg of hide or skin. This amount becomes wastewater, containing about 300 kg of different chemicals, mainly refractory org...
In dye decolorization tests a non-thermal plasma (NTP) corona discharge generated by a high voltage pin-to-ground plate displayed 82% color removal within 11 min. Total color removal was accomplished after 28 min. Different salts such as KCl, NaCl, C...
Most guidelines for urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are established on a time basis determination to determine performance and compliance with discharge standards and limits (i.e., maximum daily-average). Nevertheless, there is a lack of a...
Wastewater contains resources, which can be recovered for secondary use if treated properly. Besides research in zero liquid discharge solutions, the aim of the study was a simultaneous recovery of products from a wastewater treatment plant’s d...
Shale gas wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses significant environmental risks due to its high salinity and complex inorganic composition. This study investigates the behavior of major and trace inorganic constituents across a full-scale treatm...
The degradation of methylene blue (MB) using an upgraded dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma reactor was investigated in this paper. Air plasma was generated in the glass bead packed bed in the reactor, which was propagated into MB solution thr...
25 August 2016
A promising long-term and sustainable solution to the growing scarcity of water worldwide is to recycle and reuse wastewater. In wastewater treatment plants, the biodegradation of contaminants or pollutants by harnessing microorganisms present in act...
The hyporheic zone (HZ) is a sensitive ecotone in river ecosystems because of its biodiversity and susceptibility to human activities. Hyporheic fauna are exposed to multiple stressors that affect the physiology and metabolism of organisms and ultima...
This review examines the technological bottlenecks, potential solutions, and future development directions in the treatment and resource utilization of semi-coking wastewater (SCOW) in China. By comprehensively investigating the semi-coking industry...
Water regeneration in PVC production is a key issue to consider, given the high freshwater consumption rate of the process. This research evaluates the inherent safety of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) production via suspension polymerization by implemen...
Wastewater reuse for agricultural irrigation still raises important public health issues regarding its safety, due to the increasing presence of emerging contaminants, such as antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes, in the treated effluents. In this...
An integrated membrane process for the treatment of wastewaters from a flue gas desulfurization (FGD) plant was implemented on a laboratory scale to reduce their salt content and to produce a water stream to be recycled in the power industry. The pro...
Historically, Southern California’s four largest publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) were major sources of contaminants in the Southern California Bight (SCB), home to over 22 million residents and diverse marine life. This study conducted a...
This paper proposes a simple and easy-to-use methodology for forecasting the impact of changes in influent chemical oxygen demand (COD) and in the emission limit values (ELVs) of COD and total nitrogen on average energy requirements for aeration and...
Pharmaceuticals are consumed in high amounts and can enter as emerging organic compounds in surface waters as they are only partially retained in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Receiving pharmaceuticals may burden the aquatic environment, as th...
Inspired by plant transpiration, an attached microalgae−simulated plant system was designed to enhance the transpiration of reverse osmosis concentrated water (i.e., WROC) and realize the conversion of pollutants to microalgae biomass. The results sh...
The microwave-induced acceleration of photocatalytic reactions was discovered serendipitously in the late 1990s. The activity of photocatalysts is enhanced significantly by both microwave radiation and UV light. Particularly relevant, other than as a...
Pollution of the aquatic environment with microplastics has recently been recognised as a new environmental threat considering their negative impact on the ecosystem. Due to the low density and small particle size of microplastics, they are easily di...
Water pollution is a severe health concern. Several studies have recently demonstrated the efficacy of various approaches for treating wastewater from anthropogenic activities. Wastewater treatment is an artificial procedure that removes contaminants...
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