BTEX in the environment: An update on sources, fate, distribution, pretreatment, analysis, and removal techniques

B Yu, Z Yuan, Z Yu, F Xue-song - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
BTEX are highly toxic environmental compounds that have carcinogenic and mutagenic
effects in humans. These components are ubiquitous in environmental samples like water …

Simultaneous removal of multicomponent VOCs in biofilters

C Yang, H Qian, X Li, Y Cheng, H He, G Zeng… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are significant atmospheric pollutants that cause
environmental and health risks. Waste gases polluted with multiple VOCs often need to be …

Emerging nanosemiconductors for photocatalytic degradation of mono-aromatic volatile organic compounds (BTEX): A pragmatic review

SS Emmanuel, CO Olawoyin, ID Ayodele… - Journal of Organometallic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change and environmental pollution are unequivocally real and poses an
instantaneous, direct, grievous and inescapable existential menace to all terrestrial and …

Novel biotechnologies for nitrogen removal and their coupling with gas emissions abatement in wastewater treatment facilities

CR Chan-Pacheco, EI Valenzuela, FJ Cervantes… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewaters contaminated with nitrogenous pollutants, derived from anthropogenic
activities, have exacerbated our ecosystems sparking environmental problems, such as …

Gaseous toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene mixture removal in a microbial fuel cell: Performance, biofilm characteristics, and mechanisms

S Zhang, J You, H Chen, J Ye, Z Cheng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are regarded as promising alternatives to anaerobic benzene,
toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) mineralization due to the enhancement of …

Comparative evaluation of piggery wastewater treatment in algal-bacterial photobioreactors under indoor and outdoor conditions

D García, E Posadas, C Grajeda, S Blanco… - Bioresource …, 2017 - Elsevier
This work evaluated the performance of four open algal-bacterial photobioreactors operated
at≈ 26 days of hydraulic retention time during the treatment of 10 (× 10) and 20 (× 20) times …

[HTML][HTML] Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production from biogas in waste treatment facilities: Assessing the potential impacts on economy, environment and society

V Pérez, CR Mota, R Muñoz, R Lebrero - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Using the biogas generated from organic waste anaerobic treatment to produce
polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) has emerged as an attractive alternative to heat and power …

Efficient removal of siloxanes and volatile organic compounds from sewage biogas by an anoxic biotrickling filter supplemented with activated carbon

E Santos-Clotas, A Cabrera-Codony, E Boada… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
The removal of siloxanes (D4 and D5) and volatile organic contaminants (hexane, toluene
and limonene) typically found in sewage biogas was investigated in a lab-scale biotrickling …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced treatment of toluene emissions with a cutting-edge algal bacterial photo-bioreactor: Performance assessment in a circular economy perspective

G Oliva, RR Pahunang, G Vigliotta, T Zarra… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel approach for the treatment of VOCs (by using toluene used as a model compound)
and the simultaneous conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable biomass has been …

Monitoring microbial community structure and variations in a full-scale petroleum refinery wastewater treatment plant

E Kim, A Yulisa, S Kim, S Hwang - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
This research investigated the process efficiency and microbial communities and their
diversity in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) fed with petroleum refining …