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Combination of Advanced Oxidation Processes and biological treatments for wastewater decontamination—A review
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The main conclusions arrived at from the overall assessment of the literature are that more work needs to be done on degradation kinetics and reactor modeling of the combined process, and also dynamics of the initial attack on primary contaminants and intermediate species generation.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2011-09-15. It has received 2046 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wastewater & Industrial wastewater treatment.read more
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Membrane technology enhancement in oil–water separation. A review
Mahesh Padaki,R. Surya Murali,Mohd Sohaimi Abdullah,Nurasyikin Misdan,A. Moslehyani,Mohd. Azraai Kassim,Nidal Hilal,Ahmad Fauzi Ismail +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the recent development of advanced membrane technology such as surface modification, addition of inorganic particles in polymer membrane and the development of ceramic membranes and discuss the effect of operating parameters on the membrane performance.
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Antibiotics in the aquatic environments: A review of the European scenario.
Isabel Carvalho,Lúcia Santos +1 more
TL;DR: This literature review summarizes the state of knowledge on the occurrence of antibiotics in the different aqueous environmental systems across the Europe, as reported since 2000 and provides an improved understanding on aquatic pollution by antibiotics to outline the European scenario.
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Advanced oxidation process-mediated removal of pharmaceuticals from water: A review.
TL;DR: An overview of the findings from recent studies, which have applied AOPs to degrade pharmaceutical compounds, and a discussion that links various factors of TiO2-mediated photocatalytic treatment to its effectiveness in degrading pharmaceutical residues are included.
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An overview on the advanced oxidation processes applied for the treatment of water pollutants defined in the recently launched Directive 2013/39/EU.
TL;DR: This review summarizes the data published in the last decade regarding the application of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) to treat priority compounds and certain other pollutants defined in this Directive, excluding the inorganic species.
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Microbial decolouration of azo dyes: a review.
TL;DR: This review summarises the methodologies used to evaluate the toxicity of azo dyes and their degradation products and discusses the recent studies on the decolouration or degradation using algae, yeast, filamentous fungi and bacteria, genetically modified microorganisms and microbiological systems combined with Advanced Oxidation Processes and Microbial Fuel Cells.
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Advanced Oxidation Processes for Organic Contaminant Destruction Based on the Fenton Reaction and Related Chemistry
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