Emerging contaminants are chemicals recently discovered in natural streams as a result of human and industrial activities. Most of them have no regulatory standard and can potentially cause deleterious effects in aquatic life at environmentally relevant concentrations. The conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are not always effective for the removal of these huge classes of pollutants and so further water treatments are necessary. This chapter has the aim to study the adsorption process in the removal of emerging compounds. Firstly, a brief description of adsorption mechanism is given and then the study of conventional and non-conventional adsorbents for the removal of emerging compounds is reviewed with the comparison between them.
Removal of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater by adsorption process.
GRASSI, MARIANGELA;BELGIORNO, Vincenzo;LOFRANO, GIUSY
2012-01-01
Abstract
Emerging contaminants are chemicals recently discovered in natural streams as a result of human and industrial activities. Most of them have no regulatory standard and can potentially cause deleterious effects in aquatic life at environmentally relevant concentrations. The conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are not always effective for the removal of these huge classes of pollutants and so further water treatments are necessary. This chapter has the aim to study the adsorption process in the removal of emerging compounds. Firstly, a brief description of adsorption mechanism is given and then the study of conventional and non-conventional adsorbents for the removal of emerging compounds is reviewed with the comparison between them.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
