Fungal decolouration and degradation of azo dyes: a review

SK Sen, S Raut, P Bandyopadhyay, S Raut - Fungal Biology Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The textile industry is a substantial consumer of water and produces enormous volumes of
contaminated water; the most important contaminants are azo dyes. Fungal processes for …

Can white-rot fungi be a real wastewater treatment alternative for organic micropollutants removal? A review

JA Mir-Tutusaus, R Baccar, G Caminal, M Sarrà - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Micropollutants are a diverse group of compounds that are detected at trace concentrations
and may have a negative effect on the environment and/or human health. Most of them are …

Bacterial versus fungal laccase: potential for micropollutant degradation

J Margot, C Bennati-Granier, J Maillard, P Blánquez… - AMB express, 2013 - Springer
Relatively high concentrations of micropollutants in municipal wastewater treatment plant
(WWTP) effluents underscore the necessity to develop additional treatment steps prior to …

Degradation of pharmaceuticals in non-sterile urban wastewater by Trametes versicolor in a fluidized bed bioreactor

C Cruz-Morató, L Ferrando-Climent… - Water research, 2013 - Elsevier
The constant detection of pharmaceuticals (PhACs) in the environment demonstrates the
inefficiency of conventional wastewater treatment plants to completely remove them from …

Pharmaceuticals removal and microbial community assessment in a continuous fungal treatment of non-sterile real hospital wastewater after a coagulation …

JA Mir-Tutusaus, E Parladé, M Llorca, M Villagrasa… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Hospital wastewaters are a main source of pharmaceutical active compounds, which are
usually highly recalcitrant and can accumulate in surface and groundwater bodies. Fungal …

Production of Laccase by Cochliobolus sp. Isolated from Plastic Dumped Soils and Their Ability to Degrade Low Molecular Weight PVC

T Sumathi, B Viswanath, A Sri Lakshmi… - Biochemistry …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
One of the utmost man‐made problems faced today has been the ever‐increasing plastic
waste filling the world. It accounts for an estimated 20–30%(by volume) of municipal solid …

Sustainable management and valorization of biomass wastes using synthetic microbial consortia

SP Zhou, X Ke, LQ Jin, YP Xue, YG Zheng - Bioresource Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
In response to the persistent expansion of global resource demands, considerable attention
has been directed toward the synthetic microbial consortia (SMC) within the domain of …

[HTML][HTML] Combining biological processes with UV/H2O2 for metoprolol and metoprolol acid removal in hospital wastewater

A Jaén-Gil, G Buttiglieri, A Benito… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The transformation products (TPs) of water contaminants generated during wastewater
treatment can sometimes be equally or even more hazardous than the parent compounds …

Trametes versicolor immobilized on rotating biological contactors as alternative biological treatment for the removal of emerging concern micropollutants

AC Del Álamo, MI Pariente, F Martínez, R Molina - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
White rot fungi have been studied for the removal of micropollutants of emerging concern
from wastewater during the last decade. However, several issues need to be overcome for …

[HTML][HTML] Prospects on coupling UV/H2O2 with activated sludge or a fungal treatment for the removal of pharmaceutically active compounds in real hospital wastewater

JA Mir-Tutusaus, A Jaén-Gil, D Barceló… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional active sludge (AS) process at municipal centralized wastewater treatment
facilities may exhibit little pharmaceuticals (PhACs) removal efficiencies when treating …