Effective water/wastewater treatment methodologies for toxic pollutants removal: Processes and applications towards sustainable development

A Saravanan, PS Kumar, S Jeevanantham, S Karishma… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Release of pollutants due to inflating anthropogenic activities has a conspicuous effect on
the environment. As water is uniquely vulnerable to pollution, water pollution control has …

Emerging contaminants in wastewater: A critical review on occurrence, existing legislations, risk assessment, and sustainable treatment alternatives

VK Parida, D Saidulu, A Majumder, A Srivastava… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants (ECs) have been a threat to the aqueous environment because of
their persistent nature and ability to adversely affect the living organisms exposed to them for …

Novel insights into Anammox-based processes: A critical review

P Wu, J Chen, VK Garlapati, X Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anammox has been globally accepted as the most promising sewage treatment process.
However, the full-scale application of theanammox process islimited because anammox …

Unveiling the roles of biofilm in reducing N2O emission in a nitrifying integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS) system

Y He, Y Liu, X Li, T Zhu, Y Liu - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Biofilm process such as integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS) system has been
preliminarily found to produce less nitrous oxide (N 2 O) than suspended sludge system …

Insights into biodegradation of antibiotics during the biofilm-based wastewater treatment processes

N Wang, L Peng, Y Gu, C Liang, RWM Pott… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The widespread consumption of antibiotics has raised public concerns due to the potential
hazards of antibiotic residues to the environment. Compared to conventional activated …

Simultaneous partial Nitrification, ANAMMOX and denitrification (SNAD)–A review of critical operating parameters and reactor configurations

V Singh, B Ormeci, S Mishra, A Hussain - Chemical engineering journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Nitrogen removal is an important aspect of wastewater treatment. Conventional biological
nitrogen removal process is widely adopted for its reliable and effective nitrogen removal …

Microalgae-enabled wastewater treatment: a sustainable strategy for bioremediation of pesticides

PS Goh, WJ Lau, AF Ismail, Z Samawati, YY Liang… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pesticides have been identified as major contaminants of various waterways. Being
classified as potential endocrine disrupting compounds, pesticides in aqueous system are …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges of wastewater generation and management in sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

MA Onu, OO Ayeleru, B Oboirien… - Environmental Challenges, 2023 - Elsevier
The continuous growth in population and industrial development has prompted wastewater
(WW) generation in enormous volume with resultant effects on the quality of water in sub …

A review of ammonia removal using a biofilm-based reactor and its challenges

M Zulkifli, HA Hasan, SRS Abdullah… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extensive growth of industries leads to uncontrolled ammonia releases to environment. This
can result in significant degradation of the aquatic ecology as well as significant health …

Effect of operating parameters on the performance of integrated fixed-film activated sludge for wastewater treatment

S Waqas, NY Harun, NS Sambudi, KJ Abioye… - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS) is a hybrid wastewater treatment process that
combines suspended and attached growth. The current review provides an overview of the …