Membrane Bioprocesses for Pharmaceutical Micropollutant Removal from Waters

Membranes

Matthias de Cazes²  Ricardo Abejón²  Marie-Pierre Belleville²  José Sanchez-Marcano¹ 

[1] Institut Européen des Membranes (IEM), ENSCM, UM2, CNRS, Université de Montpellier 2, CC 047, Place Eugène Bataillon 34095, France;

关键词: membrane bioprocesses;    pharmaceutical micropollutants;    wastewaters;    membrane bioreactors;    enzymatic membrane reactors;   

DOI  :  10.3390/membranes4040692

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this review work is to give an overview of the research reported on bioprocesses for the treatment of domestic or industrial wastewaters (WW) containing pharmaceuticals. Conventional WW treatment technologies are not efficient enough to completely remove all pharmaceuticals from water. Indeed, these compounds are becoming an actual public health problem, because they are more and more present in underground and even in potable waters. Different types of bioprocesses are described in this work: from classical activated sludge systems, which allow the depletion of pharmaceuticals by bio-degradation and adsorption, to enzymatic reactions, which are more focused on the treatment of WW containing a relatively high content of pharmaceuticals and less organic carbon pollution than classical WW. Different aspects concerning the advantages of membrane bioreactors for pharmaceuticals removal are discussed, as well as the more recent studies on enzymatic membrane reactors to the depletion of these recalcitrant compounds.

【 授权许可】

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