Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes: Innovative Trends in Removal of Refractory Pollutants from Pharmaceutical Waste Water sorts out emerging and burning issues faced by the pharmaceutical industry, along with common effluent treatment plans. The book provides a comprehensive view of recent advents of various novel, advanced and hybrid treatment technologies in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment to treat emerging pollutants released by the pharmaceutical industry in their untreated wastewater. In addition, the book gives insights into recent developments with a physico-chemical and microbiological focus on the treatment of emerging contaminants (pollutants) present in pharmaceutical wastewater. - Discusses fundamentals of physico-chemical and microbiological wastewater treatment systems, advantages, limitations and promising solutions of different types of emerging contaminants present in pharmaceutical wastewater
- Presents recent trends and developments in the removal of refractory organics (pollutants/contaminants) from pharmaceutical wastewater for achieving sustainable wastewater treatment
- Covers applications of various advanced and hybrid treatment technologies for the removal of emerging contaminants from pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plants
- Includes hybrid treatment technologies, their design and application in the removal of pharmaceutical wastewater contaminants
- Addresses challenges for the full-scale implementation of bioreactors for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment

1. Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from waste water through activated sludge processes 2. Combine effect of Physico-chemical and Biological process on removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from the wastewater 3. Application of electrochemical oxidation4. Application of biosensors/biological assays for the analysis of contaminants present in pharmaceutical waste water 5. Oxidation and advanced oxidation processes 6. Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants through membrane bioreactor 7. Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants through fluidized bed reactor 8. Hybrid membrane processes 9. Advanced (nano)materials 10. Removal of emerging contaminants from pharmaceutical waste water through conventional treatment 11. Bioremediation 12. Natural treatment systems 13. Innovative technologies for emerging issues in pharmaceuticals14. Application of ultrafiltration, Nano filtration, reverse osmosis in pharmaceutical waste water treatment 15. Generation of transformation products during water treatment. 16. Novel strategies for efficiency enhancement