Multifunctional membranes with super-wetting characteristics for oil-water separation and removal of hazardous environmental pollutants from water: a review

U Baig, M Faizan, M Sajid - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, oil-water separation techniques have been widely researched due
to influences of oil pollution. The oil pollution is significantly increasing day-by-day because …

Current status and future prospects of membrane bioreactors (MBRs) and fouling phenomena: a systematic review

H Hamedi, M Ehteshami, SA Mirbagheri… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) have been widely used for municipal and industrial
wastewater treatment around the world due to their advantages, which include higher …

Photocatalytic removal of spiramycin from wastewater under visible light with N-doped TiO2 photocatalysts

V Vaiano, O Sacco, D Sannino, P Ciambelli - Chemical Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous photocatalytic processes in presence of UV light are successful to obtain
complete mineralization of various pharmaceutical pollutants but no one has studied the …

A review on the use of membrane technology and fouling control for olive mill wastewater treatment

JMO Pulido - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Olive mill effluents (OME) by-produced have significantly increased in the last decades as a
result of the boost of the olive oil agro-industrial sector and due to the conversion into …

Treatment of high-strength olive mill wastewater by combined Fenton-like oxidation and coagulation/flocculation

BM Esteves, CSD Rodrigues… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The efficiency of Fenton/Fenton-like processes on the oxidation of organic matter
from real olive mill wastewater (OMW) is described. Tests were performed in lab-scale batch …

Trends and current practices of olive mill wastewater treatment: Application of integrated membrane process and its future perspective

AY Gebreyohannes, R Mazzei, L Giorno - Separation and Purification …, 2016 - Elsevier
Olive oil production releases huge volume of environmentally detrimental wastewater. The
wastewater is rich in biophenolic compounds that exhibit both phytotoxicity and …

Visible light degradation of macrolide antibiotic azithromycin by novel ZrO2/Ag@ TiO2 nanorod composite: Transformation pathways and toxicity evaluation

S Naraginti, YY Yu, Z Fang, YC Yong - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Macrolide antibiotics are one of the major groups of emerging pharmaceutical contaminants
that have been detected in aquatic systems. Photocatalytic degradation under UV light is …

Influence of the photoreactor configuration and of different light sources in the photocatalytic treatment of highly polluted wastewater

V Vaiano, O Sacco, M Stoller, A Chianese… - International Journal of …, 2014 - degruyter.com
In this study, a highly polluted wastewater from tannery industry is treated by photocatalysis
using home-made N-doped TiO2 as catalyst. The doping by nitrogen of titania particles …

Use of advance oxidation process to improve the biodegradability of olive oil mill effluents

A Alver, E Baştürk, A Kılıç, M Karataş - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, recalcitrant total phenol (TPh) and organic matter removal were investigated at
olive mill wastewater (OMW) in sequential Coagulation and Fenton system. This study …

On the cleaning procedure of a hydrophilic reverse osmosis membrane fouled by secondary-treated olive mill wastewater

JM Ochando-Pulido, MD Victor-Ortega… - Chemical Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
The membrane cleaning protocol has a major importance to permit the economic feasibility
and reduce the environmental impacts of industrial scale membrane processes, especially …