A review on biofilm-based reactors for wastewater treatment: Recent advancements in biofilm carriers, kinetics, reactors, economics, and future perspectives

S Murshid, AJ Antonysamy… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Industrialization plays an important role in the growth of a nation. But it is also added to the
deteriorating condition of our ecosystem. Pollution, be it aquatic, terrestrial, or airborne, has …

Exploring the role of microbial biofilm for industrial effluents treatment

I Chattopadhyay, TMM Usman, S Varjani - Bioengineered, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Biofilm formation on biotic or abiotic surfaces is caused by microbial cells of a single or
heterogeneous species. Biofilm protects microbes from stressful environmental conditions …

Current trends for distillery wastewater management and its emerging applications for sustainable environment

S Ratna, S Rastogi, R Kumar - Journal of Environmental Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Ethanol distillation generates a huge volume of unwanted chemical liquid known as distillery
wastewater. Distillery wastewater is acidic, dark brown having high biological oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the function of quorum sensing regulated biofilms in biological wastewater treatment: A review

S Sahreen, H Mukhtar, K Imre, A Morar… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Quorum sensing (QS), a type of bacterial cell–cell communication, produces autoinducers
which help in biofilm formation in response to cell population density. In this review, biofilm …

Review on biological wastewater treatment and resources recovery: attached and suspended growth systems

L Machineni - Water science and technology, 2019 - iwaponline.com
The treatment of wastewater for reuse is a potential solution to meet ever increasing urban,
industrial, agricultural, and environmental demands across the world, where clean water …

Treatment wetlands and phyto-technologies for remediation of winery effluent: Challenges and opportunities

AE Mader, GA Holtman, PJ Welz - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The composition and concentration of contaminants present in winery wastewater fluctuate
through space and time, presenting a challenge for traditional remediation methods. Bio …

Characterization of eubacterial communities by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in a desulfurization …

J Brito, A Valle, F Almenglo, M Ramírez, D Cantero - New biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Anoxic biotrickling filters (BTFs) represent a technology with high H 2 S elimination capacity
and removal efficiencies widely studied for biogas desulfurization. Three changes in the final …

[HTML][HTML] Biotreatment of winery wastewater using a hybrid system combining biological trickling filters and constructed wetlands

CS Akratos, TI Tatoulis, AG Tekerlekopoulou - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The objective of this work was to determine the ability of a pilot-scale hybrid system to treat
real (non-synthetic) winery wastewater. The experimental treatment system consisted of two …

[HTML][HTML] A Rapid Culture Method for the Detection of Campylobacter from Water Environments

N Strakova, K Korena, T Gelbicova, P Kulich… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The natural environment and water are among the sources of Campylobacter jejuni and
Campylobacter coli. A limited number of protocols exist for the isolation of campylobacters in …

Applications of microbes in bioremediation of point source pollutants from wastewater

A Naz, A Chowdhury, BK Mishra - IOP Conference Series: Earth …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Water pollution is the major concern of this era. Industrial developments, agriculture
patterns, construction processes and unsustainable mining have contributed to increased …