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Controlling various contaminants in wastewater effluent through membranes and engineered wetland

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For effective wastewater reclamation and water recovery, the treatment of natural and effluent organic matters (NOM and EfOM), toxic anions, and micropollutants was considered in this work. Two different NOM (humic acid of the Suwannee River, and NOM of US and Youngsan River, Korea), and one EfOM from the Damyang wastewater treatment plant, Korea, were selected for investigating the removal efficiencies of tight nanofiltration (NF) and ultrafiltration (UF) membranes with different properties. Nitrate, bromate, and perchlorate were selected as target toxic anions due to their well known high toxicities. Tri-(2-chloroethyl)-phosphate (TCEP), oxybenzone, and caffeine, due to their different K ow and pK a values, were selected as target micropollutants. As expected, the NF membranes provided high removal efficiencies in terms of all the tested contaminants, and the UF membrane provided fairly high removal efficiencies for anions (except for nitrate) and the relatively hydrophobic micropollutant, oxybenzon. Through the wetlands, nitrate was successfully removed. Therefore, a fair process of combining membranes with an engineered wetland could be proposed for sustainable wastewater reclamation and optimum control of contaminats.

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    Sarper Sarp, Sungyun Lee, Noeon Park, Nguyen Thi Hanh & Jaeweon Cho

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Sarp, S., Lee, S., Park, N. et al. Controlling various contaminants in wastewater effluent through membranes and engineered wetland. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. China 3, 98–105 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-009-0006-7

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