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Addressing main challenges in the tertiary treatment of urban wastewater: are homogeneous photodriven AOPs the answer?
Summary
This review assessed homogeneous photodriven advanced oxidation processes as tertiary treatment options for urban wastewater, finding they offer promising but conditional performance for removing micropollutants including those associated with plastic additives.
Homogeneous photodriven advanced oxidation processes (HP-AOPs) have been increasingly investigated in past years as a possible alternative solution to conventional tertiary treatment methods of urban wastewater.
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