“…WPA can be purified by many techniques such as extraction (Hamdi and Hannachi, 2012; Hannachi et al, 2007; Ye and Li, 2013), nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, liquid membrane (Gonzalez et al, 2002; Urtiaga et al, 2000), adsorption (El‐Bayaa et al, 2011; Unob et al, 2007; Zermane and Meniai, 2012), crystallization (Chen et al, 2013a, b), and precipitation (Ennaassia et al, 2002; Goldstein, 1974). These techniques suffer from problems such as making secondary pollutions, high costs, low selectivity, high energy consumption, and is ineffective at low concentrations (Gilmour, 2013).…”