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Pedro Cisterna-Osorio and Patricia Arancibia-Avila
Fats and oils are the most common pollutants in wastewater, and are usually eliminated through physical processes in wastewater treatment plants, generating large amounts of fats and residual oils that are difficult to dispose of and handle. The degradat...
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Martin Lodenius
External pollution load in the Baltic Sea originates from urban, agricultural and industrial sources. Emissions of heavy metals have decreased substantially in the catchment area but the temporal trends are not always significant and differ with sample, ...
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Swati Gupta and Zeev Ronen
Nitroaromatic compounds (NACs), which are widely used in pesticides, explosives, dyes, and pharmaceuticals, include nitrobenzene, nitrotoluenes, nitrophenols, and nitrobenzoates. They are also significant industrial pollutants in the environment. These s...
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Lijun Li, He Li, Lihong Tong and Yizhong Lv
It is desirable to recycle sewage sludge as fertilizer for agricultural fields. The application of sludge to agricultural soils is a measure that replaces chemical fertilizers and plays an important role in improving soil?s physicochemical and biological...
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Mingyu Xie, Xiaoran Zhang, Yuanyuan Jing, Xinyue Du, Ziyang Zhang and Chaohong Tan
Groundwater is an important part of the water resources, crucial for human production and life. With the rapid development of industry and agriculture, organic pollution of groundwater has attracted great attention. Enhanced in-situ bioremediation of gro...
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Mohamed Elsayed Gabr, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Ali Salem and Ahmed Awad
Point and nonpoint wastewater sources have a detrimental, negative effect on agriculture, soil, surface, and groundwater supplies. In this research, a wastewater treatment system made up of a sedimentation tank, a horizontal subsurface flow constructed w...
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Yiqun Liu, Hailong Lu and Yue Cui
The exploration of the ocean is essential for the exploitation of marine resources and the sustainable development of human society. In order to assess both the health and the resources of the marine environment, a variety of chemical and biological samp...
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Biao Zhou, Tiejian Zhang and Fei Wang
There are several industrial processes in which heavy metals are used, including but not limited to chrome plating and tanning. Amongst the most toxic heavy metals to human health are arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, copper, nickel, and mercury. The afo...
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Michele Menghini, Roberta Pedrazzani, Donatella Feretti, Giovanna Mazzoleni, Nathalie Steimberg, Chiara Urani, Ilaria Zerbini and Giorgio Bertanza
The assessment of the environmental footprint of an organization or product is based on methods published by the European Union Joint Research Centre, which take 16 impact areas into account. Among the listed categories are human and freshwater ecosystem...
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Muhammad Shettima Lawan, Rajeev Kumar, Jamshaid Rashid and Mohamed Abou El-Fetouh Barakat
The treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater (PRWW) is of great interest in industrial wastewater management. This wastewater contains a diverse concentration of contaminants such as oil and grease, petroleum hydrocarbons, phenols, ammonia, and sulfide...
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