Treatment of textile wastewater by advanced oxidation processes– A review

Abstract

The use of conventional textile wastewater treatment processes becomes drastically challenged to environmental engineers with increasing more and more restrictive effluent quality by water authorities. Conventional treatment such as biological treatment discharges will no longer be tolerated as 53% of 87 colours are identified as non-biodegradable. Advanced oxidation processes hold great promise to provide alternative for better treatment and protection of environment, thus are reviewed in this paper. An overview of basis and treatment efficiency for different AOPs are considered and presented according to their specific features.