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Many current wastewater treatment technologies have limited inherent capabilities. Reverse osmosis membranes, for instance, cannot be used to recover wastewater with a high salinity concentration.
Fremont, CA: The quality of treated wastewater is critical for reuse; that is, the recovered water must meet the safety standards for its intended use.
A large amount of contaminated wastewater is discharged by several manufacturing processes. The contaminants found in industrial wastewater are determined by the manufacturing process. Organic constituents, extreme pH, high salinity, toxic heavy metals, and high turbidity due to the presence of inorganic impurities are all instances of industrial wastewater pollutants.
Challenges of Conventional Water Treatments
Specific contaminants, such as microorganisms, toxic heavy metals, and oil, are sometimes ineffectively removed by these wastewater treatments. In order to meet the quality standards of reusable water, industrial wastewater must be treated in a series of complicated steps.
Distillation is a reliable method for removing pollutants from contaminated water. However, this treatment method is prohibitively expensive.
Industrial wastewater recovery does not always necessitate extreme treatment, such as distillation. In the oil and gas industry, for instance, recovered water does not need to be completely desalinated as long as specific pollutants are completely removed. Only a targeted treatment method would suffice in these cases. Only specific contaminants are removed, resulting in high-quality water that can be reused.
Many current wastewater treatment technologies have limited inherent capabilities. Reverse osmosis membranes, for instance, cannot be used to recover wastewater with a high salinity concentration.
Adsorbers are only used for specific compounds with specific functional groups/structures. The majority of ion exchange surfaces are chemically specific.
In order to address these challenges, researchers have developed a number of processes that can remove various pollutants instantly while also recovering high-value constituents and energy from industrial wastewater. These complex techniques, nevertheless, are prohibitively expensive.
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