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Extracellular polymeric substances of bacteria and their potential environmental applications.
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This review marginalizes various studies conducted so far about EPS nature-production-recovery, properties, environmental applications and moreover, critically examines future research needs and advanced application prospective of the EPS.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Management.The article was published on 2014-11-01. It has received 709 citations till now.read more
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Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances: Ecological Function and Impact on Soil Aggregation.
TL;DR: An overview of current knowledge on the ecological functions of microbial EPSs and their application in agricultural soils to improve soil particle aggregation, an important factor for soil structure, health, and fertility is provided.
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Insights into the Fate and Removal of Antibiotics in Engineered Biological Treatment Systems: A Critical Review
TL;DR: This review systematically summarizes the behavior and removal of different antibiotics in various biological treatment systems with discussion on their removal efficiency, removal mechanisms, critical bioreactor operating conditions affecting antibiotics removal, and recent innovative advancements.
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Sources, Toxicity, and Remediation Approaches.
Avani Bharatkumar Patel,Shabnam Shaikh,Kunal Jain,Chirayu Desai,Datta Madamwar,Datta Madamwar +5 more
TL;DR: This review provides a detailed systematic compilation of the eco-friendly biological treatment solutions for remediation of PAHs such as microbial remediation approaches using bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae, and co-cultures.
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Exploiting extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) controlling strategies for performance enhancement of biological wastewater treatments: An overview.
Yahui Shi,Jinhui Huang,Guangming Zeng,Yanling Gu,Chen Yaoning,Yi Hu,Bi Tang,Jianxin Zhou,Ying Yang,Lixiu Shi +9 more
TL;DR: Special emphasis is laid on EPS controlling strategies which would have the great potential in promoting microbial aggregates performance and in alleviating membrane fouling, including limitation strategies and elevation strategies which have been confirmed to be feasible and promising to enhance system performance.
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Critical review on dewatering of sewage sludge: Influential mechanism, conditioning technologies and implications to sludge re-utilizations.
Boran Wu,Xiaohu Dai,Xiaoli Chai +2 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that a unified theory for sludge dewaterability improvement remains to be established, as how the molecular structures of sludge compositions affect the solid-water interface behavior requires to be deepened, which will further unravel the mechanism behind strong water-holding capacities of bio-flocs.
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The biofilm matrix
TL;DR: The functions, properties and constituents of the EPS matrix that make biofilms the most successful forms of life on earth are described.
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Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) of microbial aggregates in biological wastewater treatment systems: a review.
TL;DR: As EPS are very complex, the knowledge regarding EPS is far from complete and much work is still required to fully understand their precise roles in the biological treatment process.
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Landfill leachate treatment: Review and opportunity
TL;DR: Today, the use of membrane technologies, more especially reverse osmosis (RO), either as a main step in a landfill leachate treatment chain or as single post-treatment step has shown to be an indispensable means of achieving purification.
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Influence of loosely bound extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) on the flocculation, sedimentation and dewaterability of activated sludge.
Xiao-yan Li,Shu-fang Yang +1 more
TL;DR: Although EPS is essential to sludge floc formation, excessive EPS in the form of LB-EPS could weaken cell attachment and the floc structure, resulting in poor bioflocculation, greater cell erosion and retarded sludge-water separation.
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A unified theory for extracellular polymeric substances, soluble microbial products, and active and inert biomass.
TL;DR: A unified theory shows that the apparently distinct products from the SMP and EPS schools overlap each other, and shows that Soluble EPS is actually SMP, or the sum of UAP and BAP.