Please cite this article as: Barredo-Damas S., Alcaina-Miranda M. I., Iborra-Clar M. I. and Mendoza-Roca J. A., (2010), Application of nanofiltration/reverse osmosis membranes to textile effluents aiming its reclamation and reuse: influence of operating conditions, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 21, 1027-1032 DOI: 10.3303/CET1021172 Application of Nanofiltration/Reverse Osmosis Membranes to...

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance in microorganisms are on the increase worldwide and are responsible for substantial cases of therapeutic failures. Resistance of species of Enterococcus to antibiotics is linked to their ability to acquire and disseminate antimicrobial resistance determinants in nature, and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are considered to be one of the main reservoirs of...

Some of the industries that discharge highly colored effluents are paper and pulp mills, textiles and dye-making industries, alcohol distilleries, and leather industries. Terrestrial white-rot basidiomycetous fungi and their lignin-degrading enzymes laccase, manganese-peroxidase and lignin peroxidases are useful in the treatment of colored industrial effluents and other xenobiotics. Free myceli...

Water resources are increasingly getting contaminated day by day due to the ignorance lent to the wastewater management.Most of the textile dyes or effluents are a major reason for the pollution of water resources.Although many methods are adopted to treat these textile effluents,but there is a dire need to come up with an eco-friendly,cost effective method for the removal of contaminants from ...

The rapid growth in population and industrialization cause generation of large quantities of effluents. The bulk effluents generated from industrial activities are discharged either treated or untreated over the soil leading to changes in soil properties causing improvement or degradation of engineering behaviour of soil. If there is an improvement in engineering behaviour of soil, there is a v...

Actinomycetes isolated from different soil samples were tested for their abilities to utilize spent sulfite bleach effluents from a paper mill. Degradation and dechlorination of the chlorinated compounds in the effluents of the first two bleaching stages, i.e., chlorination stage [(C + D)red.] and alkaline extraction stage (E1O), were monitored by determining total organic carbon (TOC) and acti...

In order to assessing whether algae can reduce the pollution concentration of the effluents by absorbing the nutrients, it is found that effluents can effectively be treated by employing algal organisisms such as Oscillatoria and Stigeoclonium species and these organisms are frequently found in the polluted waters and they were recorded as pollution tolerant forms. In the laboratory procedures ...

Effluents from pulp and paper mills are highly toxic and are a major source of water pollution. Nearly 250 chemicals have been identified in effluents which are produced at different stages of papermaking. Their toxic nature is derived from the presence of several naturally occurring and xenobiotic compounds which are formed and released during various stages of papermaking. If applied under ap...

Abstract Industrial effluents containing appreciable amounts of phenol and formalin may represent a problem when these effluents undergoing biological treatment. Experience in field of biological treatment for wastewater contains high concentrations of formalin showed high inhibition effect of formalin to biodegradation, specifically at higher concentrations more than 225 mg/L [3]. Also, as phe...

This correspondence describes the successful development of methods for the recovery, isolation and detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts in wastewater and biosolids. Wastewater from one plant was used to optimize methods in raw influent as well as primary, secondary and tertiary effluents. Raw influents and primary effluents were concentrated using centrifugation followed by isolation of Crypto...