Water Purification of Classical and Emerging Organic Pollutants: An Extensive Review

The main techniques used for organic pollutant removal from water are adsorption, reductive and oxidative processes, phytoremediation, bioremediation, separation by membranes and liquid–liquid extraction. In this review, strengths and weaknesses of the different purification techniques are discussed...

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Published in:	ChemEngineering Vol. 5; no. 3; p. 47
Main Authors:	Somma, Simona, Reverchon, Ernesto, Baldino, Lucia
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Basel MDPI AG 01-09-2021
Subjects:	Adsorbents Adsorption Bioremediation Chemical engineering Chemicals classical pollutants emerging pollutants Membranes organic pollutants Phytoremediation Pollutants Pollution Pore size reductive and oxidative processes Solvents VOCs Volatile organic compounds Water purification Europe
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Summary:	The main techniques used for organic pollutant removal from water are adsorption, reductive and oxidative processes, phytoremediation, bioremediation, separation by membranes and liquid–liquid extraction. In this review, strengths and weaknesses of the different purification techniques are discussed, with particular attention to the newest results published in the scientific literature. This study highlighted that adsorption is the most frequently used method for water purification, since it can balance high organic pollutants removal efficiency, it has the possibility to treat a large quantity of water in semi-continuous way and has acceptable costs.
ISSN:	2305-7084 2305-7084
DOI:	10.3390/chemengineering5030047