In a typical wastewater treatment fl ow sheet used by several industrial units in Indi a. various stages of treatment include primary treatment. foll owed by secondary treatment . and tertiary treatment. The concentration of total dissolved solids increases during neutrali zation of the wastewater with acid/ alkali during primary treatment. which adversely affects the activity of microorgani sm...

Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can be used to treat wastewater and produce hydrogen gas, but low cost cathode catalysts are needed to make this approach economical. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and stainless steel (SS) were evaluated as alternative cathode catalysts to platinum (Pt) in terms of treatment efficiency and energy recovery using actual wastewaters. Two different types of wastewa...

In this paper, components of an industrial wastewater that cause operational problems during biological treatment were oxidized by UV light and hydrogen peroxide (UV/H202). Preoxidation of wastewater was shown to remove polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and ethoxylate surfactant and increase overall biodegradability. Several UV intensities and hydrogen peroxide concentrations were tested to find optim...

ublicly owned treatment works (POTWs) are beginning the process of identifying air emissions from their wastewater treatment and collection facilities. Many of these facilities will be required by local and state regulatory agencies to reduce emissions to meet air quality or health risks standards. Emissions include odors and toxic, reactive, volatile and criteria pollutants. A wide range of re...

Research was conducted to develop process applications for anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria acclimated to animal wastewater conditions using microbial immobilization techniques. In the anammox reaction, under anaerobic and autotrophic conditions, ammonium (NH4) serves as the electron donor using nitrite (NO2) as the electron acceptor resulting in production of harmless di-nitroge...

The world demands more and energy due to the continuous population increase. In parallel, high organic nutrient contents of wastewater streams are generated from anthropogenic activities like urbanization, industrialization, agricultural practices. discharge these into water bodies has been considered responsible for oxygen depletion eutrophication in environment. Integrating microalgae cultiva...

Clean fresh water is essential to our life. Unfortunately, in our consumer-based economy, a large amounts of wastewater having been generated by industrial plants. Wastewaters produced in many industrial plants often contain organic compounds which are toxic and not amenable to direct biological treatment. These wastewaters must be treated in order to meet the specifications for discharge or fo...