A mechanistic review on vermifiltration of wastewater: design, operation and performance

R Singh, P Bhunia, RR Dash - Journal of Environmental Management, 2017 - Elsevier
With global population explosion, the available water resources are slowly being polluted
due to the excessive human interference. To encounter this, it is the need of this hour to find …

Treatment of wastewater by vermifiltration integrated with macrophyte filter: a review

K Samal, RR Dash, P Bhunia - Journal of environmental chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Vermifiltration is an economically affordable and environmentally sustainable technology for
treatment of wastewater. However, the long-term effective performance and field scale …

Sustainability assessment of vermifiltration technology for treating domestic sewage: A review

SD Chowdhury, P Bhunia, RY Surampalli - Journal of water process …, 2022 - Elsevier
With population surge and vigorous industrialization, scarcity of freshwater is intensifying
day-by-day. Reutilization of treated wastewater has been regarded as the most promising …

Vermifiltration as a sustainable natural treatment technology for the treatment and reuse of wastewater: a review

R Singh, K Samal, RR Dash, P Bhunia - Journal of Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•The review successfully elaborates the mechanisms involved in vermifiltration.•
Application of vermifiltration in domestic and industrial context is discussed.•The review …

The effect of seasonal temperature on pathogen removal efficacy of vermifilter for wastewater treatment

S Arora, AA Kazmi - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
The present study explored the effects of seasonal temperature on the treatment efficiency
and pathogen removal efficacy from synthetic domestic wastewater, earthworm population …

Antibiotic detection in a hospital wastewater and comparison of their removal rate by activated sludge and earthworm-based vermifilteration: Environmental risk …

R Shokoohi, N Ghobadi, K Godini, M Hadi… - Process Safety and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of the current research was to detect some antibiotics in hospital sewage and
compare their removal rates reached using a vermifilter (VF) pilot and a real activated …

Evaluation of vermifiltration process using natural ingredients for effective wastewater treatment

T Kumar, R Bhargava, KSH Prasad, V Pruthi - Ecological engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
The present investigation focused on the evaluation of vermifiltration process using different
natural ingredients as a media. The vermifilter was evaluated using different natural …

Optimization of organics removal and understanding the impact of HRT on vermifiltration of brewery wastewater

R Singh, P Bhunia, RR Dash - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The study was conducted with an aim to optimize the parameters involved in removing
organics from brewery effluents using a newly developed horizontal subsurface flow …

The use of microbial-earthworm ecofilters for wastewater treatment with special attention to influencing factors in performance: a review

L Jiang, Y Liu, X Hu, G Zeng, H Wang, L Zhou… - Bioresource …, 2016 - Elsevier
With the unique advantages of lower operational and maintenance cost, the use of microbial-
earthworm ecofilters (MEEs) for the wastewater treatment has been increasing rapidly in the …

A review on integrated vermifiltration as a sustainable treatment method for wastewater

P Das, KK Paul - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
To overcome the scarcity of fresh water, concerned authorities worldwide are bound to think
about remediation and reuse of domestic and industrial effluents. The present review study …