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A Study on the Potential Microplastic Removal in Water
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This study reviewed technologies for removing microplastic pollutants from water, examining physical, chemical, and biological treatment approaches applicable to wastewater treatment. The review assessed the effectiveness and limitations of current methods and discussed potential combinations to improve removal efficiency of microplastics across different size ranges.
Water pollution is one of the major types of pollution in this world. Water pollution refers to the contamination of water with hazardous substances or chemicals that are harmful to human health, animals, and plants. Plastic comes in a wide variety of sizes, forms, and colours. Plastics can be dumped into the environment as poorly managed garbage and have the potential to indiscriminately contaminate water. Therefore, this study is focusing on the microplastic pollutants removal from contaminated water. Microplastics can be treated and removed in wastewater treatment using a variety of techniques such as membrane filtrations, adsorption, electrocoagulation, photocatalyst and many more. This study aim is to ascertain how effective it is to remove microplastics using magnetic activated carbon that has been produced from agriculture waste. As for the result, the highest percentage removal is Polyethylene (PE) which is 89.05% compared to other microplastic samples which is percentage removal for Polystyrene (PS) is 85.79% and Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) is 86.53%.
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