Abstract
Large quantities of natural and synthetic hormones contained in livestock waste and wastewater (LWW) can cause serious problems in our environment. Composting and anaerobic digestion cannot remove hormones efficiently, so they should be modified to enhance the treatment processes. In addition, constructed wetlands show decent rates for removal of hormones. Advanced technologies such as membrane biological reactors and microalgae-based systems efficiently eliminate hormones from LWW. However, more practical studies are needed to investigate their actual performances. The categories, degradation mechanisms, and enzymes of hormone-degrading microorganisms are presented, and related hormone-degrading microorganism-based technologies are introduced. Finally, composting, anaerobic digestion, constructed wetlands, membrane biological reactors, and microalgae-based systems are compared in terms of their applicability in LWW treatment.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 100307 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Environmental Science and Health |
| Volume | 24 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-careOtherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Keywords
- Membrane biological reactors
- Microalgae-based systems
- Composting
- Constructed wetlands
- Hormones
- Anaerobic digestion
