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An Innovative and Effective Industrial Wastewater Treatments: A Brief History and Present Scenario

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In existing years, emerging pollutants are a pronounced concern throughout the globe. These pollutants have been widely distributed due to anthropogenic inputs, urbanization, and industrialization. People are now aware of broadly spreading emerging pollutants due to ever-rising scientific familiarity, development in technology, and socio-economic consciousness. These emerging pollutants are widely present in industrial wastewater that lasts for a persistence period and possess potential risks to live species including humans. The main concern of these pollutants is they cause severe ecological threats even at small concentrations. Industrial wastewater includes toxins, pharmaceuticals, dye, pesticides, etc., posture a substantial threat to conventional treatment and proved ineffective for the complete removal and exclusion of impurities. To overwhelm ecological threats, remarkable research efforts have been done to boost the bioremediation technology or to identify new modalities, analyze and competently treat the sample. The thriving of environmental technology offers significant openings to develop an inventive and advanced approach to wastewater treatment. This chapter discusses crucial contaminants and probable causes, characteristics of industrial wastewater, and types of industrial wastewater like textile, paper and pulp, tannery, dairy, wineries, breweries, and distilleries industry wastewater. However, the effects of industrial wastewater on the environment and human beings, preventive measures to reduce industrial water pollution, and conventional treatments for industrial wastewater are discussed in detail. In conclusion, the chapter explained innovative and effective technologies for industrial wastewater treatment. Hence overall this chapter sheds light on present wastewater treatments that will guide future research to achieve the maximum removal of toxic chemicals from water and soil to prevent their harmful effect on living species as well as the environment.

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  1. Department of Environment Management, Chhatrapati Shahu Institute of Business Education and Research, Kolhapur, India

    Pooja M. Patil & Rachna R. Ingavale

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, D. Y. Patil College of Engineering and Technology, Kolhapur, India

    Abhijeet R. Matkar

  3. Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666, USA

    Sangchul Hwang & Ranjit Gurav

  4. Department of Microbiology, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Dr. Patangrao Kadam Mahavidyalaya, Sangli, India

    Maruti J. Dhanavade

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Patil, P.M., Ingavale, R.R., Matkar, A.R., Hwang, S., Gurav, R., Dhanavade, M.J. (2023). An Innovative and Effective Industrial Wastewater Treatments: A Brief History and Present Scenario. In: Shah, M.P. (eds) Advanced and Innovative Approaches of Environmental Biotechnology in Industrial Wastewater Treatment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2598-8_10

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