Environments,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
11(6), С. 105 - 105
Опубликована: Май 22, 2024
This
study
explores
the
potential
of
storage
lagoons
as
a
quaternary
treatment
step
in
wastewater
plants
(WWTPs),
focusing
on
compliance
with
recent
European
Urban
Wastewater
Treatment
Directive
(UWWTD),
which
mandates
an
80%
reduction
specific
micropollutants.
While
conventional
treatments
effectively
remove
residual
nutrients
and
solids,
additional
is
not
fully
defined.
research
aims
to
address
this
gap
by
assessing
efficacy
refining
effluent
quality
at
Cabezo
Beaza
WWTP,
considering
UWWTD
requirements.
We
conduct
comprehensive
assessment
water
parameters
micropollutants,
before
after
lagoon
stage,
WWTP.
The
results
indicate
that
strategy
prolonged
manages
meet
objectives
established
Directive,
reaching
elimination
percentages
greater
than
for
majority
analyzed
Our
findings
suggest
significantly
improve
reduce
contaminants
beyond
treatments,
offering
environmental
economic
benefits.
paper
discusses
mechanisms
behind
these
improvements,
such
natural
sedimentation,
microbial
activity,
phytoremediation.
contributes
advanced
supports
integration
viable
solution
meets
standards.
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
269, С. 115854 - 115854
Опубликована: Дек. 27, 2023
Chlorination
is
a
versatile
technique
to
combat
water-borne
pathogens.
Over
the
last
years,
there
has
been
continued
research
interest
abate
formation
of
chlorinated
disinfection
by-products
(DBPs).
To
prevent
hazardous
DBPs
in
drinking
water,
it
decided
diminish
organic
precursors,
among
which
humic
acids
(HA)
resulting
from
decomposition
and
transformation
biomass.
Metal-organic
frameworks
(MOFs)
such
as
zeolitic
imidazolate
(ZIFs)
have
recently
received
tremendous
attention
water
purification.
Herein,
customized
ZIF-67
MOFs
possessing
various
physicochemical
properties
were
prepared
by
changing
cobalt
source.
The
HA
removal
ZIF-67-Cl,
ZIF-67-OAc,
ZIF-67-NO
The
prevention
of
human
infectious
diseases
associated
with
waterborne
pathogens
is
reliant
on
the
effective
disinfection
water
supplies
by
drinking
treatment
plants
and
adequately
maintained
distribution
networks.
For
decades,
chlorination
has
safeguarded
public
health,
where
chlorine
broadly
applied
in
both
food
production
facilities,
including
dairy
industry,
from
farm
to
fork.
identification
byproducts
produce
great
concern,
however,
due
their
cytotoxic,
genotoxic,
mutagenic,
teratogenic,
potential
endocrine-disrupting
activity.
association
between
trihalomethanes
(THMs)
haloacetic
acids
(HAAs)
tumour
formation
documented
led
implementation
maximum
contaminant
levels
enforced
European
Union.
Furthermore,
resistance
bacterial
species
multidrug
clinically
relevant
pathogens,
antibiotic-
biocidal-resistant
genes
are
also
environmental
pollutants.
Increasing
concentration
surmount
this
will
ultimately
lead
increasing
concentrations
products,
exceeding
EU
requirements.
This
article
provides
insight
into
DBPs
as
a
toxicological
health
risk
relationship
antibiotic
microbes
production.
