Efficient techniques for the removal of toxic heavy metals from aquatic environment: A review

CF Carolin, PS Kumar, A Saravanan, GJ Joshiba… - Journal of environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
The controversy related to the environment pollution is increasing in human life and in the
eco-system. Especially, the water pollution is growing rapidly due to the wastewater …

A review on algal-bacterial symbiotic system for effective treatment of wastewater

A Saravanan, PS Kumar, S Varjani, S Jeevanantham… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Industrialization, urbanization and other anthropogenic activities releases different organic
and inorganic toxic chemicals into the environment which prompted the water contamination …

Prospects for humic acids treatment and recovery in wastewater: A review

X Zhu, J Liu, L Li, G Zhen, X Lu, J Zhang, H Liu, Z Zhou… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Clean water shortages require the reuse of wastewater. The presence of organic substances
such as humic acids in wastewater makes the water treatment process more difficult. Humic …

Biosensors for wastewater monitoring: A review

F Ejeian, P Etedali, HA Mansouri-Tehrani… - Biosensors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Water pollution and habitat degradation are the cause of increasing water scarcity and
decline in aquatic biodiversity. While the freshwater availability has been declining through …

Changes in the characteristics of dissolved organic matter during sludge treatment: A critical review

K **ao, G Abbt-Braun, H Horn - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) of sludge is a heterogeneous mixture of high to low
molecular weight organic substances which is including proteinaceous compounds …

Insights into biofilm carriers for biological wastewater treatment processes: Current state-of-the-art, challenges, and opportunities

Y Zhao, D Liu, W Huang, Y Yang, M Ji, LD Nghiem… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biofilm carriers play an important role in attached growth systems for wastewater treatment
processes. This study systematically summarizes the traditional and novel biofilm carriers …

Enhanced volatile fatty acids (VFAs) production in a thermophilic fermenter with stepwise pH increase–Investigation on dissolved organic matter transformation and …

Y Chen, X Jiang, K **ao, N Shen, RJ Zeng, Y Zhou - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, a mixture of primary and wasted activated sludge was fermented in a semi-
continuous reactor aiming for enhanced volatile fatty acids (VFAs) production. The reactor …

The crucial role of environmental coronas in determining the biological effects of engineered nanomaterials

L Xu, M Xu, R Wang, Y Yin, I Lynch, S Liu - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In aquatic environments, a large number of ecological macromolecules (eg, natural organic
matter (NOM), extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), and proteins) can adsorb onto the …

Polymeric membranes incorporated with ZnO nanoparticles for membrane fouling mitigation: A brief review

L Shen, Z Huang, Y Liu, R Li, Y Xu, G Jakaj… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Due to the flexibility of operation, high removal ability, and economic cost, separation
membranes have proved to be one of the most significant technologies in various aspects …

Characterization of dissolved organic matter in wastewater during aerobic, anaerobic, and anoxic treatment processes by molecular size and fluorescence analyses

K Komatsu, T Onodera, A Kohzu, K Syutsubo, A Imai - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in the characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM: the dissolved
fraction of natural organic matter) during a series of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) …