基于生物膜的废水处理过程中的微塑料-生物膜相互作用:一篇综述
Yaning Huang1, Tanqiu Hu1, Bincheng Lin1
1Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Ecological Security and Green Development, Key Laboratory for City Cluster Environmental Safety and Green Development of the Ministry of Education, School of Ecology, Environment and Resources, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
|August 31, 2024
概括
微塑料对废水处理构成了挑战. 本综述探讨了微塑料如何与生物膜相互作用,影响各种生物膜系统中的污染物去除和处理效率.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 环境工程 环境工程
- 水处理 处理水的方法
背景情况:
- 微塑料是来自塑料垃圾的普遍环境污染物.
- 污水处理厂 (WWTPs) 面临着在去除微塑料方面面临的挑战,原因是它们的小尺寸和各种特性.
- 基于生物膜的处理技术被广泛使用,但它们与微塑料的相互作用尚未完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 批判性地审查微塑料和基于生物膜的废水处理技术之间的相互作用.
- 阐明"微塑料上的生物膜"和"微塑料中的生物膜"形成的机制.
- 评估这些相互作用对污染物去除和整体处理性能的影响.
主要方法:
- 文献综述综合了关于微塑料与生物膜相互作用的当前研究.
- 对研究这些相互作用的先进表征技术 (形态,化学,生物信息) 的分析.
- 对不同生物膜反应堆配置 (生物过器,BAF,RBC,MBBR) 的微塑料影响的评估.
主要成果:
- 微塑料可以表现出双重作用,阻碍或增强处理过程.
- 结果取决于微塑料度,物理化学性质和所使用的特定生物膜技术.
- 在微塑料和生物膜之间观察到复杂的相互作用,影响污染物去除效率.
结论:
- 了解微塑料与生物膜的相互作用对于有效的废水处理至关重要.
- 需要制定策略,以减轻WWTP中微塑料的不利影响.
- 优化生物膜反应器的设计和运行可以改善微塑料的管理.
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