Sustainable and efficient technologies for removal and recovery of toxic and valuable metals from wastewater: Recent progress, challenges, and future perspectives

A Abidli, Y Huang, ZB Rejeb, A Zaoui, CB Park - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their numerous effects on human health and the natural environment, water
contamination with heavy metals and metalloids, caused by their extensive use in various …

Biofilms, active substrata, and me

BE Rittmann - Water Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Having worked with biofilms since the 1970s, I know that they are ubiquitous in nature, of
great value in water technology, and scientifically fascinating. Biofilms are naturally able to …

Biochar based constructed wetland for secondary effluent treatment: Waste resource utilization

F Zheng, J Fang, F Guo, X Yang, T Liu, M Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are widely used to treat the effluent of wastewater treatment
plants (WWTPs) due to their energy-saving and environmentally friendly advantages …

Selenate and nitrate bioreductions using methane as the electron donor in a membrane biofilm reactor

CY Lai, LL Wen, LD Shi, KK Zhao… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Selenate (SeO42–) bioreduction is possible with oxidation of a range of organic or inorganic
electron donors, but it never has been reported with methane gas (CH4) as the electron …

Para-Chlorophenol (4-CP) Removal by a Palladium-Coated Biofilm: Coupling Catalytic Dechlorination and Microbial Mineralization via Denitrification

M Long, X Long, CW Zheng, YH Luo… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Rapid dechlorination and full mineralization of para-chlorophenol (4-CP), a toxic
contaminant, are unfulfilled goals in water treatment. Means to achieve both goals stem from …

Microbial interspecific interaction and nitrogen metabolism pathway for the treatment of municipal wastewater by iron carbon based constructed wetland

X Huang, X Yang, J Zhu, J Yu - Bioresource Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to explore the pollutant removal performance and interspecific interaction in
constructed wetland (CW) with Fe 0-C filler, constructed wetland with Fe 0-C filler (CW-Fe) …

Mass flow and metabolic pathway of nonaeration greywater treatment in an oxygenic microalgal–bacterial biofilm

Y Zhou, B Wu, X Cui, T Ren, T Ran… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
A symbiotic microalgal–bacterial biofilm can enable efficient carbon (C) and nitrogen (N)
removal during aeration-free wastewater treatment. However, the contributions of …

Recovery of nanomaterials from battery and electronic wastes: A new paradigm of environmental waste management

T Dutta, KH Kim, A Deep, JE Szulejko… - … and sustainable energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recycling battery and electronic wastes for the recovery of nanomaterials (NMs) has
ushered in a new era in nanotechnology and environmental research. Essentially, NM …

Reduction and precipitation of chromium (VI) using a palladized membrane biofilm reactor

C Wu, J Zhou, S Pang, L Yang, E Lichtfouse, H Liu… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
H 2-driven reduction of hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) using precious-metal catalysts is
promising, but its implementation in water treatment has been restricted by poor H 2-transfer …

A kinetic model for 2, 4-dichlorophenol adsorption and hydrodechlorination over a palladized biofilm

C Wu, L Zhou, C Zhou, Y Zhou, J Zhou, S **a… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Adsorption and catalytic hydrodechlorination (HDC) of aqueous 2, 4-DCP by palladium
nanoparticles (Pd 0 NPs) associated with a biofilm (ie, a Pd 0-biofilm) was investigated in …