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Date: | 2018 |
Abstract: | 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 unregulated contaminants, although they have raised a concern in the scientific and global community and future regulation might be written in the near future. Several approaches have been tested to remove micropollutants from wastewater streams. In this manuscript, a focus is placed in reactor biological treatments that use white-rot fungi. A critical review of white-rot fungal-based technologies for micropollutant removal from wastewater has been conducted, several capabilities and limitations of such approaches have been identified and a range of solutions to overcome most of the limitations have been reviewed and/or proposed. Overall, this review argues that white-rot fungal reactors could be an efficient technology to remove micropollutants from specific wastewater streams. |
Grants: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CTM2016-75587-C2-1-R Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-14 |
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Language: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
Subject: | Micropollutants ; Wastewater ; White-rot fungi ; Pesticides ; Immobilizations ; Endocrine disruptors |
Published in: | Water research, Vol. 138 (Jul. 2018) , p. 137-151, ISSN 0043-1354 |
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