Benchmarking tertiary water treatments for the removal of micropollutants and pathogens based on operational and sustainability criteria

Sustainable bioactivity enhancement of ZnO–Ag nanoparticles in antimicrobial, antibiofilm, lung cancer, and photocatalytic applications

“…Chemotherapeutic and antibiotic agents are commonly employed in managing cancer and bacterial infections; however, their synthesis and utilization may have substantial environmental effects. 8 Numerous chemicals, including cationic and textile, and pharmaceuticals. 9 These substances detrimentally affect the aquatic environment, posing risks to the health of animals and humans.…”

“…Chemotherapeutic and antibiotic agents are commonly employed in managing cancer and bacterial infections; however, their synthesis and utilization may have substantial environmental effects. 8 Numerous chemicals, including cationic and anionic dyes, such as methylene blue, methyl orange, eosin yellow, congo red, and bromophenol blue, as well as various other organic compounds, are discharged into both small and large water bodies by industries, such as printing, leather, paint, textile, and pharmaceuticals. 9 These substances detrimentally affect the aquatic environment, posing risks to the health of animals and humans.…”

Disinfection and particle removal by a nature-based Daphnia filtration system for wastewater treatment

“…The implementation of tertiary wastewater treatments makes it possible to significantly improve the quality of treated wastewater and, hence, both increase the variety of reuse applications [2] and permit its reintroduction into the environment in better conditions [3]. However, the widespread adoption of tertiary treatments has been limited by the high energy and chemical dosage requirements [4].…”

Ameliorating Direct Blue Dye Degradation Using Trametes versicolor Derived Laccase Enzyme Optimized through Box–Behnken Design (BBD) via Submerged Fermentation

“…Various options were available to control these pollutants. Unfortunately, the physical-chemical methods led to immense expenses towards investments such as the ozonation plant which was a batchwise setup (de Boer et al 2022), the operation cost of running an anaerobic reactor for a long duration (Muthukumar et al 2004), poor stability of electrodes (Bayramoglu et al 2007). Even though these methods had a good beginning but faced unfavorable ends like deposits of sludge and toxic by-products many countries, including India (Szostek et al 2022;Ali et al 2013), impractical electrodes maintenance (Macedo et al 2021), low efficiency besides all types of dyes (Jebapriya and Gnanadoss 2013), needed more improvement in efficiency by filtration process (Cescon and Jiang 2020), election and cleaning of filtration, and sometimes the effluent flow rate might affect the reactor (Muthukumar et al 2004).…”