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Treatment of industrial wastewater

This review covers the main methods used for treating industrial wastewater, including primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment approaches. The study discusses the specific challenges posed by diverse manufacturing processes and outlines the conditions that industrial discharges must meet, providing an overview of available technologies for reducing the environmental impact of factory effluents.

2024 IntechOpen eBooks 10 citations
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A multidimensional study of wastewater treatment

This review covers the full range of wastewater treatment approaches, from physical and chemical methods to biological and membrane-based technologies. The paper summarizes how different contaminant types — including microplastics — are handled by various treatment systems. It serves as a broad reference for understanding current wastewater management capabilities and limitations.

2022 International Journal of experimental research and review 7 citations
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A systematic review of industrial wastewater management: Evaluating challenges and enablers

This systematic review of 66 studies on industrial wastewater management found that while treatment technologies are advancing, major challenges remain in regulation enforcement, cost-effectiveness, and integration of circular economy principles. The research highlights that inadequate industrial wastewater treatment is a significant source of environmental pollutants, including microplastics, entering waterways.

2023 Journal of Environmental Management 458 citations
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Submerged membrane/adsorption hybrid process in water reclamation and concentrate management—a mini review

Researchers review how combining membrane filtration with adsorption — a process where pollutants stick to a material's surface — creates a hybrid water treatment system that outperforms either method alone. This integrated approach is particularly effective at removing hard-to-treat organic pollutants from wastewater, including trace pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals that conventional treatment misses.

2022 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25 citations
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The Design of a Sustainable Industrial Wastewater Treatment System and The Generation of Biohydrogen from E. crassipes

Researchers designed a sustainable industrial wastewater treatment system for a specific industrial process, evaluating treatment train configurations for removing target contaminants while minimizing energy consumption and sludge generation. The optimized design achieved regulatory compliance for effluent quality while reducing operational costs compared to the existing system.

2024 Polymers 7 citations
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Revolutionizing Wastewater Reuse: A Critical Review of Innovative Treatment Technologies for a Sustainable Energy-Water Nexus

This review critically examines innovative wastewater treatment technologies for sustainable reuse, covering advances in membrane filtration, electrochemical processes, advanced oxidation, and emerging contaminant removal including microplastics, in the context of addressing global water scarcity.

2025
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The Role of Conventional Methods and Artificial Intelligence in the Wastewater Treatment: A Comprehensive Review

This review provides a comprehensive overview of both conventional and artificial intelligence-based approaches to wastewater treatment, covering methods for removing contaminants including microplastics, heavy metals, and organic pollutants. Researchers found that AI and machine learning tools can optimize treatment processes, predict outcomes, and reduce costs compared to traditional trial-and-error approaches. The study highlights how digital technologies are transforming water treatment to meet growing demands for clean water.

2022 Processes 99 citations
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Methodological Approach to Industrial Waste Treatment Research and Visualization of Information and Analytical Review

Researchers developed a scientific-methodological framework for studying industrial and household solid waste treatment, incorporating information visualization techniques to enhance analytical review of waste management technologies. The approach uses linear-sequential schemes and visual information analytics to identify promising treatment methods from large volumes of scientific literature.

2024 Labour protection problems in Ukraine
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A Brief Review of Treatment Methods for Certain Emerging Contaminants in Domestic and Industrial Effluents

This review summarizes emerging contaminant treatment methods for domestic and industrial effluents, covering advanced oxidation, membrane filtration, adsorption, and biological approaches for removing pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and other persistent pollutants.

2024 1 citations
Review Tier 2

Current Trends and Future Perspectives in the Remediation of Polluted Water, Soil and Air—A Review

This review surveys current and emerging remediation techniques for polluted water, soil, and air, including biological, chemical, and physical approaches. The study suggests that biological remediation methods are generally the most environmentally friendly, though the complexity of mixed pollutant compositions often requires combining multiple techniques for effective cleanup.

2023 Processes 39 citations
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Removal of Organic Pollution in Water Environment

This review summarizes methods for removing organic pollutants from municipal and industrial wastewater, covering physical, chemical, and biological treatment approaches. Improving wastewater treatment is essential to protecting aquatic ecosystems from the growing burden of organic chemical contamination.

2019 32 citations
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Exploring trends of wastewater treatment by using nano-materials and their composites with bio-polymer

This review examines trends in wastewater treatment using nanomaterials and their composites with biopolymers, analyzing techniques including nanofiltration, adsorption, disinfection, and bioremediation for removing pollutants such as heavy metals, biological oxygen demand, and toxic compounds from industrial effluents.

2024 Environment Conservation Journal 1 citations
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Microplastics in aquatic systems: An in-depth review of current and potential water treatment processes

This review provides a detailed examination of microplastic contamination in aquatic systems and evaluates current and emerging water treatment technologies for their removal. Researchers assessed methods ranging from conventional coagulation and filtration to advanced techniques like membrane bioreactors and electrochemical processes. The study concludes that while no single technology fully eliminates microplastics, combining multiple treatment approaches offers the most promising path forward.

2024 Chemosphere 10 citations
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Emerging Pollutants in Wastewater: A Challenge for Water Reuse

This review examines emerging pollutants in wastewater as a central challenge for water reuse strategies, covering contaminants present at both domestic and industrial scales. It evaluates the sustainability benefits and treatment hurdles associated with recycling wastewater to address global water scarcity.

2025 Advances in water security
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Treatment approaches for emerging contaminants in sludge and wastewater

Researchers reviewed biological and physicochemical treatment approaches for removing emerging contaminants from wastewater and sludge. The study highlights that conventional treatment methods do not completely remove substances like pharmaceuticals and personal care products, and examines recent advances in processes designed to address these persistent pollutants.

2024 IWA Publishing eBooks 2 citations
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Modern Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Trends, Problems, and Prospects

This review examines modern wastewater treatment technologies including mechanical, biological, and physicochemical methods, highlighting that conventional systems inadequately remove emerging micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, microplastics, and nanoparticles. The authors identify key barriers to progress including high costs, aging infrastructure, and weak governance, and advocate for integrated approaches combining membrane technologies, nanomaterials, and circular economy principles.

2025 SERIES CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
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A Critical Review of Green Approach on Wastewater Treatment Strategies

This critical review examines green approaches to wastewater treatment that aim to be both sustainable and environmentally friendly. The study surveys energy-efficient treatment technologies developed between 2015 and 2023, highlighting methods that reduce the environmental footprint compared to conventional wastewater treatment processes.

2024 Journal of applied science and environmental management 17 citations
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The Potentiality of Reuse Industrial Waste for Diverse Water Treatment -An Overview

This overview reviews innovative adsorbent materials made from industrial waste that can remove diverse pollutants from wastewater at low cost. While not focused on microplastics specifically, it is relevant to the broader challenge of plastic and chemical pollution remediation in water systems.

2023 Sustainable Chemical Engineering 2 citations
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Emerging pollutants in waste water: Challenges and advancements in treatment technology

This review examines the challenges of removing emerging pollutants like microplastics, PFAS, and pharmaceutical residues from wastewater using conventional treatment methods. Researchers found that traditional approaches such as activated sludge and coagulation are often insufficient, while advanced oxidation processes, adsorption-based methods, and novel biological treatments show more promise. The study emphasizes the need for sustainable, energy-efficient solutions and stronger regulatory frameworks to protect water resources.

2024 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 7 citations
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Treatment of Water and Wastewater for Reuse and Energy Generation-Emerging Technologies

This review covers emerging water and wastewater treatment technologies, comparing their effectiveness and cost. As microplastic contamination of water supplies increases, improved treatment methods will be needed to protect drinking water quality.

2019 IntechOpen eBooks 37 citations
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A review on techniques for the cleaning of wastewater

This review comprehensively examines current wastewater treatment approaches including physical, chemical, and biological methods, with emphasis on adsorption and membrane filtration for removing contaminants. The review addresses global challenges of water contamination and scarcity affecting billions of people annually.

2024 GSC Advanced Research and Reviews 9 citations
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Removal of microplastics from wastewater: available techniques and way forward

This review surveys available techniques for removing microplastics from wastewater within a circular economy framework, discussing innovative treatment technologies, integrated risk-based approaches, and regulatory and economic guidelines needed to advance water resource recovery facilities beyond conventional pollutant removal.

2023 IWA Publishing eBooks 3 citations
Review Tier 2

Removing microplastics from wastewater using leading-edge treatment technologies: a solution to microplastic pollution—a review

This review examined leading-edge treatment technologies for removing microplastics from wastewater, as treatment plants are a major pathway for microplastics entering the environment. Researchers evaluated various advanced treatment methods including membrane filtration, advanced oxidation, and electrocoagulation for their microplastic removal efficiency. The study suggests that combining multiple treatment approaches may be necessary to effectively reduce microplastic discharge from wastewater systems.

2022 Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 60 citations
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Tratamento de efluentes por processos anóxico-óxicos: características operacionais e eficiência

A narrative literature review analyzed anoxic-oxic combined processes for wastewater effluent treatment, finding these systems highly effective for removing organic matter, nitrogen, and phosphorus, though further research is needed to optimize mechanisms and expand applications.

2024 Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciências Ambientais 5 citations