Introduction to Wastewater Decontamination

This Review provides data survey, types of treatment and models linked to optimization tools in wastewater decontamination processes from municipal solid waste (MSW).

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in using of advanced oxidation processes in water and wastewater decontamination.

Accordingly, wastewater decontamination by adsorption over a porous monolithic bed made of alkali-activated hydraulic binders is proposed.

Therefore, this work provides the underlying insights to guide the design of a functional and green biochar converting from Ramie filaments by an environmentally friendly facile protocol to achieve multiple purposes of wastewater decontamination and disinfection.

Performance on industrial wastewater decontamination was evaluated, and anti-fouling property of membranes was measured by flux decline and recovery efficiency.

Wastewater usually contains various species of heavy metals, thus understanding of competitive adsorption kinetics of metallic ions in a multi-component system is necessary for developing an innovative adsorption process for wastewater decontamination.

This paper focuses on studying the effect of electrolytic water on wastewater decontamination processes, using model solutions and wastewater from the food-processing plant.

Solar-driven photocatalytic degradation undoubtedly represents a hopeful, sustainable together with effective alternative wastewater decontamination technology, however, exploiting highly efficient visible-light-induced photocatalysts for sewage remediation still exists a great challenge.

This work might provide a deep insight into designing novel homojunction photocatalysts to facilitate the wastewater decontamination, and environmental remediation using photocatalytic technology.

This paper provides critical insight on various lignocellulosic fibers used for colored and wastewater decontamination.

This work might provide an implication for an efficient practical route for SO 4 •− activation for wastewater decontamination, particularly for sulfite contaminated wastewaters with recalcitrant organic contaminants.

Suggestions have been made on the prospects of the method of photoelectrocatalytic wastewater decontamination from organic pollutants.

This study may provide a novel and significant method for using nano-zero-valent iron to develop for wastewater decontamination.

Biochar and biochar composites have been applied widely in wastewater treatment, and have significantly enhanced the treatment performance of Fenton-like processes (activation of hydrogen peroxide and persulfate) as an advanced oxidation process for organics removal and wastewater decontamination.

Tuned properties (optical and surface) were achieved for the fabricated tin oxide/cerium oxide nanostructured photocatalysts and used for visible-light-induced photocatalytic degradation of antibiotic and dyes for wastewater decontamination.

Therefore, this work not only demonstrates that ZAC composite is an efficient adsorbent with antifouling and antibacterial ability, but also provides an effective channel for wastewater decontamination and practical application as a promising candidate.

This study proposes a neotype graphene assembly for the fabrication of Janus membrane evaporator, which has potential applications in desalination and wastewater decontamination.

This proof-of-concept approach to develop such high-efficient Co–Sr structures produced Co3+/Co2+ and Sr3+/Sr2+ will open up novel avenues for wastewater decontamination via PMS activation.

This work provides a promising effective catalyst for PAA activation and will facilitate PAA application in wastewater decontamination.

Emulsification, biodiesel preparation, wastewater decontamination, organic synthesis, enzymatic catalysis and extractions are discussed among others.

The observations confirm that the synthesized hybrid 3D composite facilitates wastewater decontamination using photocatalytic technology and highlights the broad implications of designing multifunctional materials for various advanced applications.

This research would provide a strategy for designing efficient and magnetically recycled photocatalysts for wastewater decontamination under visible light.

In the last decades, rapid progress has been made in the research of nanocomposite adsorbents for wastewater decontamination.

Therefore, the resulting membrane integrating high-efficiency emulsions separation and synchronous dyes removal capabilities holds a great prospect for sophisticated oily wastewater decontamination.

The combined processes (30 min SPF; 15 min GAC) provided almost complete removal of toxicity and elimination of antibiotics, ensuring wastewater decontamination.

Overall, in this review, we particularly focused on advanced photocatalytic activity with simultaneous wastewater decontamination and energy conversion, and further enriched the mechanism by proposing the electron flow and substance conversion.

In current research, environment-friendly magnetic fluid namely Fe3O4-water ferrofluid has been studied which is useful in magnetic nanostructured materials have been found to be very efficient in wastewater decontamination.

To check the applicability of synthesized catalysts toward wastewater decontamination, reduction of six models, organic pollutants were investigated such as 4-nitrophenol (4-NP), 2-nitrophenol (2-NP), 2-nitroaniline (2-NA), trinitrophenols (TNP) as well as rhodamine B (RhB) and methyl orange (MO) dyes.