A Review on Advanced Treatment of Pharmaceutical Wastewater

The composition of pharmaceutical wastewater is complex, which is high concentration of organic matter, microbial toxicity, high salt, and difficult to biodegrade. After secondary treatment, there are still trace amounts of suspended solids and dissolved organic matter. To improve the quality of pha...

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Published inIOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 12025 - 12030
Main Authors Guo, Y, Qi, P S, Liu, Y Z
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.05.2017
Subjects
Activated carbon
Activated carbon adsorption
Biological activity
Biological treatment
Coagulation
Dissolved organic matter
Effluents
Flotation
Medical wastes
Membrane separation
Membranes
Microorganisms
Oxidation
Pharmaceutical industry wastes
Pharmaceuticals
Separation
Solid suspensions
Suspended solids
Toxicity
Wastewater treatment
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Summary:The composition of pharmaceutical wastewater is complex, which is high concentration of organic matter, microbial toxicity, high salt, and difficult to biodegrade. After secondary treatment, there are still trace amounts of suspended solids and dissolved organic matter. To improve the quality of pharmaceutical wastewater effluent, advanced treatment is essential. In this paper, the classification of the pharmaceutical technology was introduced, and the characteristics of pharmaceutical wastewater effluent quality were summarized. The methods of advanced treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater were reviewed afterwards, which included coagulation and sedimentation, flotation, activated carbon adsorption, membrane separation, advanced oxidation processes, membrane separation and biological treatment. Meanwhile, the characteristics of each process were described.
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ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/63/1/012025