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Wastewater

About: Wastewater is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 92512 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1256590 citations. The topic is also known as: waste water.


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TL;DR: This review presents a comprehensive overview of the diverse range of practice, applications, and researches of CW systems for removing various contaminants from wastewater in developing countries, placing them in the overall context of the need for low-cost and sustainable wastewater treatment systems.

319 citations

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TL;DR: It is highlighted that WWTPs could represent a potential source of MPs also to agroecosystems and the possible re-use of WWTP sludge in fertilizers for agriculture is highlighted.

319 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated practices of water management of 11 dairy plants and found that a 540 m 2 RO unit is required to treat 100 m 3 /d of wastewater with 95% water recovery.

319 citations

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TL;DR: A critical account of micro-algae as an important step in wastewater treatment for enhancing the reduction of N, P and the chemical oxygen demand in wastewater, whilst utilising a fraction of the energy demand of conventional biological treatment systems.

318 citations

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30 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Organic pollution is the term used when large quantities of organic compounds such as pesticides, fertilizers, hydrocarbons, phenols, plasticizers, biphenyls, de− tergents, oils, greases, pharmaceuticals, proteins and carbohydrates.
Abstract: Organic pollution is the term used when large quantities of organic compounds. It origi‐ nates from domestic sewage, urban run-off, industrial effluents and agriculture wastewater. sewage treatment plants and industry including food processing, pulp and paper making, agriculture and aquaculture. During the decomposition process of organic pollutants the dissolved oxygen in the receiving water may be consumed at a greater rate than it can be replenished, causing oxygen depletion and having severe consequences for the stream biota. Wastewater with organic pollutants contains large quantities of suspended solids which re‐ duce the light available to photosynthetic organisms and, on settling out, alter the character‐ istics of the river bed, rendering it an unsuitable habitat for many invertebrates. Organic pollutants include pesticides, fertilizers, hydrocarbons, phenols, plasticizers, biphenyls, de‐ tergents, oils, greases, pharmaceuticals, proteins and carbohydrates [1-3].

317 citations


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Performance
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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20247
20236,349
202213,022
20214,371
20204,662
20196,129