Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review

Nadia Morin-Crini (1) , Eric Lichtfouse (2, 3) , Marc Fourmentin (4) , Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro (5) , Constantinos Noutsopoulos (6) , Francesca Mapelli (7) , Éva Fenyvesi , Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira (8) , Lorenzo A Picos-Corrales (9) , Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján (10) , Liliana Giraldo (11) , Tamás Sohajda , Mohammad Mahmudul Huq (12) , Jafar Soltan (12) , Giangiacomo Torri (13) , Monica Magureanu (14) , Corina Bradu (15) , Grégorio Crini (1)

1 LCE - Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)
2 Xjtu - Xi'an Jiaotong University
3 CEREGE - Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement
4 LPCA - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère
5 Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
6 NTUA - National Technical University of Athens [Athens]
7 UNIMI - Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan
8 UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas
9 UAS - Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
10 UNIANDES - Universidad de los Andes [Bogota]
11 UNAL - Universidad Nacional de Colombia [Bogotà]
12 U of S - University of Saskatchewan [Saskatoon, Canada]
13 Istituto di Chimica e Biochimica G. Ronzoni
14 National Institute for Lasers, Plasma, and Radiation Physics - INFLPR (ROMANIA)
15 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics

The rise of emerging contaminants in waters challenges the scientific community and water treatment stakeholders to design remediation techniques that are simple, practical, inexpensive, effective, and environmentally friendly. Emerging contaminants include antibiotics, hormones, illicit drugs, endocrine disruptors, cosmetics, personal care products, pesticides, surfactants, industrial products, microplastics, nanoparticles, and nanomaterials. Removing those contaminants is not easy because classical wastewater treatment systems are not designed to handle emerging contaminants, and contaminants often occur as traces in complex organo-mineral mixtures. Here, we review advanced treatments for the removal of emerging contaminants in wastewater, with focus on adsorption-oriented processes using non-conventional adsorbents such as cyclo-dextrin polymers, metal-organic frameworks, molecularly imprinted polymers, chitosan, and nanocellulose. We describe biological-based technologies for the degradation and removal of emerging contaminants. Then, we present advanced oxidation processes as the most promising strategies because of their simplicity and efficiency.

Mots clés: Emerging contaminants; Wastewater; Advanced treatments; Adsorption; Biological technology; Oxidation processes; Emerging contaminants

Domaines: Ingénierie de l'environnement; Autre; Polymères

Nadia Morin-Crini, Eric Lichtfouse, Marc Fourmentin, Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro, Constantinos Noutsopoulos, et al.. Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review. Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2022, 20, pp.1333-1375. ⟨10.1007/s10311-021-01379-5⟩. ⟨hal-03523724⟩