Fu, Y. and Zhao, Y. and Yao, K.M. and Addo-Bankas, O. and Ji, B. and Yuan, Y. and Wei , T. and Esteve-Núñez, A. (2022) A review on antibiotics removal: Leveraging the combination of grey and green techniques. Science of The Total Environment, 838 (3). p. 156427. ISSN 00489697
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Antibiotics are currently a major source of concern around the world due to the serious risks posed to human health and the environment. The performance of the secondary wastewater treatment processes/technologies (representing grey process) and constructed wetlands (CWs) (typical green process) in removing antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) was reviewed. The result showed that the grey process mainly removes antibiotics, but does not significantly remove ARG, and some processes may even cause ARG enrichment. The overall treatment in CWs is better than WWTPs, especially for ARG. Vertical subsurface flow CWs (VFCWs) are more conductive to antibiotics removal, while horizontal subsurface flow CWs (HFCWs) have a better ARG removal. More importantly, this review admits and suggests that the combination of grey process with green process is an effective strategy to remove antibiotics and ARG. The most advantage of the combination lies in realizing complementary advantages, i.e. the grey process as the primary treatment while CWs as the polishing stage. The efficiency of such the hybrid system is much higher than either single treatment process.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Art |
| Depositing User: | Belén Barroeta |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 09:42 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2022 09:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imdea-agua.org:13000/id/eprint/1388 |
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