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  1. Recent advancements in water treatment

    Dec.15, 2021. In this paper, researchers surveyed both conventional and advanced disinfection processes in the U.S., testing the quality of their drinking waters. Treatment plants with advanced removal technologies, such as activated carbon, formed fewer types and lower levels of harmful disinfection byproducts (known as DBPs) in their water.

  2. Wastewater Treatment and Reuse: a Review of its Applications ...

    Water scarcity is one of the major problems in the world and millions of people have no access to freshwater. Untreated wastewater is widely used for agriculture in many countries. This is one of the world-leading serious environmental and public health concerns. Instead of using untreated wastewater, treated wastewater has been found more applicable and ecofriendly option. Moreover ...

  3. (PDF) Recent Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment ...

    The 12 research contributions highlight various processes and technologies that can achieve the effective treatment and purification of wastewater and drinking water, aiming (occasionally) for ...

  4. Fundamentals and applications in water treatment

    In a News & Views in June 2023 4 we highlighted a paper studying the fundamental aspects of water transport in reverse osmosis membranes 5. Among the papers we published, a clear example is the ...

  5. A critical review of point-of-use drinking water treatment in the

    In 2019, about 6% of public water utilities in the U.S. had a health-based violation. Due to the high risk of exposure to various contaminants in drinking water, point-of-use (POU) drinking water ...

  6. Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater: a comprehensive and

    Research studies (listed in Supplementary Table 4) showed that physical adsorption, chemical adsorption, and ion exchange are the most common mechanisms controlling wastewater treatment using ...

  7. Wastewater Treatment and Reuse for Sustainable Water Resources

    sustainable resource management by improving the supply of clean water, and minimizing pressur e. on natural resources, energy recovery, and agricultural support. W astewater treatment pr ovides ...

  8. Current Water Treatment Technologies: An Introduction

    Water is the most fundamental substance for all life on earth and a precious resource for human civilization. A growing number of contaminants are entering the water bodies in both developing and industrialized countries [1,2,3].The continuous increase in water pollution by various organic and/or inorganic contaminants has become a common problem all over the world [4,5,6,7,8].

  9. Water Research

    Water Research publishes refereed, original research papers on all aspects of the science and technology of the anthropogenic water cycle, water quality, and its management worldwide. A broad outline of the journal's scope includes: •Treatment processes for water and wastewaters (municipal, agricultural, industrial, and on-site treatment ...

  10. Water

    Feature papers represent the most advanced research with significant potential for high impact in the field. A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. ... "Wastewater Treatment ...

  11. Water

    The papers included in this Special Issue of Water, entitled "Rainwater Harvesting and Treatment", provide a contemporary snapshot of research trends in the field. Each of the twelve research papers contributes to the advancement of the topic with an in-depth investigation of a specific feature, offering a comprehensive overview of recent ...

  12. Recent Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment with Emphasis ...

    The present Special Issue brought together recent research findings from renowned scientists in this field and assembled contributions on advanced technologies that have been applied to the treatment of wastewater and drinking water, with an emphasis on novel membrane treatment technologies. The 12 research contributions highlight various processes and technologies that can achieve the ...

  13. Membrane-based water and wastewater treatment technologies: Issues

    Clean water scarcity has threatened the human health, and sustainability of the environment and ecosystems (Gleick and Cooley, 2021; Zhao et al., 2021).Recent studies showed that around four billion people forming two-thirds of the global population live under aggressive water scarcity conditions for at least one month of the year (Mekonnen and Hoekstra, 2016).

  14. Algae-based water treatment: A promising and sustainable approach

    The Special Issue on 'Algae-based water treatment' presents the current status and some important innovations in the algae-based water treatment area. ... this would result in technology implementation failures. Some of the key research questions include the implications of water body scale/type (e.g., from pond to large reservoir trials ...

  15. PDF A critical review of conventional and emerging wastewater treatment

    Microbial electrolysis cell technology (MEC) MEC's is a cutting-edge technology that can replace tradi-tional WWT methods, like conventional aerobic and non-aerobic treatment methods. The main attributes of MEC's are that they enable the conversion of organic content pre-sent in sewage water into hydrogen gas.

  16. (PDF) The Treatment of Wastewater, Recycling and Reuse ...

    The Treatment of Wastewater, Recycling and Reuse. - Past, Present, and in the Future. Jyotsana Maura, Suchita Atreya, Anfal Arshi. Defence Institute of Bio-Energy Research (DIBER), DRDO, Haldwani ...

  17. Greywater Characteristics, Treatment Systems, Reuse Strategies and User

    This study reviewed greywater characteristics, treatment systems, reuse strategies and perception of greywater reuse among users. It shows that there is a wide variation in greywater characteristics and volume generation rates which is largely dependent on the water use, lifestyle patterns and type of settlement.

  18. Filtration Process and Alternative Filter Media Material in Water Treatment

    In drinking water treatment, filtration plays an important role in the multi-barrier approach employed for the removal of pathogens. The presence of suspended solids and other particulate matter in water increases the resistance of most microbes to disinfection. Therefore, high performance in the removal of particles achieved by granular filtration can increase the disinfection efficiency ...

  19. Treatment of Water Using Various Filtration Techniques: Review Study

    This review paper focuses on the various types of Filtration techniques. available and whic h tec hnique is most suitable for which t ype of region. W e. will study the t ypes of natural ...

  20. Research on drinking water purification technologies for ...

    This study, based in San Bernardino County, Southern California, collected and examined tap water samples within the area to explore the feasibility of adopting non-industrial equipment and methods to reduce water hardness and total dissolved solids(TDS). We investigated how water quality could be improved by utilizing water boiling, activated carbon and sodium bicarbonate additives, as well ...

  21. Applications of nanotechnology in water and wastewater treatment

    The antimicrobial mechanisms of these nanomaterials, their merits, limitations, and applicability for water treatment, and the critical research needs are thoroughly discussed in that review paper (Li et al., 2008). Thus only a brief update mainly regarding nano-Ag and carbon based nanomaterials will be provided here.

  22. Water treatment and artificial intelligence techniques: a ...

    According to what is observed, the main published papers applying the AI method to water treatment have been in 2019 with 23 times, while the published papers showed an average of 236 citations. According to Fig. 3, the publications of water treatment research works had a gradual increase from 2014 to 2020 with an average of 68 published papers ...

  23. Full article: Scientometric study of drinking water treatments

    The high impact factor of the journal Water Research (9,130) reflects its status as a leading academic journal in the field of water treatment. Similarly, the journal Water Research had the highest citations (8332), followed by the journal Environmental Science and Technology (3669), and then Chemosphere with 3218 citations.

  24. (PDF) Wastewater Treatment: An Overview

    The water treatment technologies used in dye removal are classified into two types: physicochemical and biological treatment processes [1,5,6,35]. ... together with the relevant scientific papers ...

  25. Improving carbon management through maximizing hydrolysis and

    Wastewater treatment plants are transitioning from a sole focus on treatment objectives to integrated resource recovery and upcycling. Effective carbon management is critical for upcycling within a water resource recovery facility (WRRF) to produce energy or other usable products, which involves carbon diversion at primary treatment and waste activated sludge (WAS) from biological treatment ...