Wastewater treatment and reclamation: a review of pulp and paper industry practices and opportunities

MA Hubbe, JR Metts, D Hermosilla, M Blanco… - BioResources, 2016 - jyx.jyu.fi
The pulp and paper (P&P) industry worldwide has achieved substantial progress in treating
both process water and wastewater, thus limiting the discharge of pollutants to receiving …

The application of advanced oxidation technologies to the treatment of effluents from the pulp and paper industry: a review

D Hermosilla, N Merayo, A Gascó, Á Blanco - Environmental Science and …, 2015 - Springer
The paper industry is adopting zero liquid effluent technologies to reduce freshwater use
and meet environmental regulations, which implies closure of water circuits and the …

Assessing the application of advanced oxidation processes, and their combination with biological treatment, to effluents from pulp and paper industry

N Merayo, D Hermosilla, L Blanco, L Cortijo… - Journal of hazardous …, 2013 - Elsevier
The closure of water circuits within pulp and paper mills has resulted in a higher
contamination load of the final mill effluent, which must consequently be further treated in …

Optimization of conventional Fenton and ultraviolet-assisted oxidation processes for the treatment of reverse osmosis retentate from a paper mill

D Hermosilla, N Merayo, R Ordóñez, Á Blanco - Waste Management, 2012 - Elsevier
According to current environmental legislation concerned with water scarcity, paper industry
is being forced to adopt a zero liquid effluent policy. In consequence, reverse osmosis (RO) …

Silica removal from newsprint mill effluents with aluminum salts

I Latour, R Miranda, A Blanco - Chemical engineering journal, 2013 - Elsevier
The main obstacle for the implementation of reverse osmosis (RO) in a treatment chain to
reuse the effluent of a newsprint mill as fresh water is the high silica content of the water …

Silica removal in industrial effluents with high silica content and low hardness

I Latour, R Miranda, A Blanco - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2014 - Springer
High silica content of de-inked paper mill effluents is limiting their regeneration and reuse
after membrane treatments such as reverse osmosis (RO). Silica removal during softening …

Understanding the efficiency of aluminum coagulants used in dissolved air flotation (DAF)

R Miranda, I Latour, A Blanco - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This paper reports on the efficiency of five aluminum coagulants for the treatment of a paper
mill wastewater by dissolved air flotation (DAF). The coagulants studied were: alum, a …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers and economic aspects for the implementation of advanced wastewater treatment and water reuse in a PVC plant

D Prieto, N Swinnen, L Blanco, D Hermosilla… - Water Resources and …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper shows the economic feasibility of water reuse within a polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
plant. A two-step treatment of the current primary effluent consisting of an aerobic membrane …

Modelling approach to an ultrafiltration process for the removal of dissolved and colloidal substances from treated wastewater for reuse in recycled paper …

MRS Sousa, J Lora-Garcia, MF López-Pérez - Journal of Water Process …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, ultrafiltration (UF) is used to remove dissolved and colloidal substances (DCS)
from a secondary clarifier effluent from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in a …

Optimization of silica removal with magnesium chloride in papermaking effluents: mechanistic and kinetic studies

I Latour, R Miranda, A Blanco - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
The reuse of deinking paper mill effluent based on reverse osmosis is limited by silica
scaling on the membranes. The removal of silica during softening processes is one of the …