This study investigated the occurrence and removal of 12 antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, levofloxacin, norfloxacin, nalidixic acid, azithromycin, clarithromycin, roxithromycin, lincomycin, novobiocin, sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim) at four sewage treatment plants (STPs): two STPs in Kyoto, Japan and two STPs in Beijing, China. The STPs differed in design and operation conditions, uti...

pulp and paper effluents are considered as serious environmental hazards and their treatment, because of multiplicity of impurities and complexity of their chemical structures, is one of the most difficult and inconvenient industrial processes. as the most pulp and paper mill work on kraft process, there are few studies in literature on the treatment of neural sulfite semi chemical (nssc) proce...

This study presents the isolation and molecular characterization of bacterial strains utilizing 1, 7, 7-Trimethylbicyclo (2.2.1) heptane-2-one (camphor) as a sole source of carbon, isolated from the biomass sludge sample collected from an effluent treatment plant of Mathura Refinery Limited (MRL), India. Initial screening was carried out where the 16S rDNA PCR was performed using reported eubac...

the efficiency of oxidation processes, enzymatic treatment, and combined enzymatic/chemical sequences on color remediation of cmp pulp mill effluent was investigated. two kinds of fungal enzymes; laccase (ec: 1.10.3.2) from terametes versicolor and versatile peroxidase (ec: 1.11.1.7) from bjerkandera adusta were chosen and applied. also, the effect of external mediator on the enzyme based degra...

ammonia (nh3) and nitrite (no2) toxic chemicals which resulted from fish culture, especially in intensive fish culture systems. to evaluate the efficiency of green algae scenedesmus quadricauda in ammonia and nitrite removal from intensive fish farm effluent and also its application as suitable culture medium for s. quadricauda , effluent water samples were collected from rainbow trout farm. si...

Sugar Factory effluent is one of the most important moderate – high pollution concentration wastewater, which is generated mainly from the mill house washing activities of the sugar factory. The effluent is rich in organic matter resultant from the sugarcane juice, sugar syrup and sugar present in the washwater. The COD of this effluent is variable from 5000 – 10000 mg/L. The aim of the present...

Petroleum refineries discharged large amount of wastewater -during the refining processthat contains hazardous constituents that is hard to degrade. Anaerobic treatment process is well known as an efficient method to degrade high strength wastewaters. Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanker (UASB) is a common process used for various wastewater treatments. Two UASB reactors were set up and operated in...