Hazardous Wastes Treatment Technologies

Abstract

A review of the literature published in 2019 on topics related to hazardous waste management in water, soils, sediments, and air. The review covered treatment technologies applying physical, chemical, and biological principles for the remediation of contaminated water, soils, sediments, and air. Practical points: This report provides a review of technologies for the management of waters, wastewaters, air, sediments, and soils contaminated by various hazardous chemicals including inorganic (e.g., oxyanions, salts, and heavy metals), organic (e.g., halogenated, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, pesticides, and persistent organic chemicals) in three scientific areas of physical, chemical, and biological methods. Physical methods for the management of hazardous wastes including general adsorption, sand filtration, coagulation/flocculation, electrodialysis, electrokinetics, electro-sorption (capacitive deionization, CDI), membrane (RO, NF, MF), photocatalysis, photoelectrochemical oxidation, sonochemical, non-thermal plasma, supercritical fluid, electrochemical oxidation, and electrochemical reduction processes were reviewed. Chemical methods including ozone-based, hydrogen peroxide-based, potassium permanganate processes, and Fenton and Fenton-like process were reviewed. Biological methods such as aerobic, anoxic, anaerobic, bioreactors, constructed wetlands, soil bioremediation and biofilter processes for the management of hazardous wastes, in mode of consortium and pure culture were reviewed. Case histories were reviewed in four areas including contaminated sediments, contaminated soils, mixed industrial solid wastes and radioactive wastes.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

adsorption; advanced oxidation; biological processes; capacitive deionization; coagulation; electrochemical processes; filtration; hazardous chemicals; membrane separation; metals; oxyanions; PPCPs; redox reaction; refractory chemicals

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1554-7531

Document Type

Article - Journal

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text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2020 Wiley, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Oct 2020

PubMed ID

32866315

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