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Application of common industrial solid waste in water treatment: a review

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Industrial solid waste has a wide range of impacts, and it is directly or indirectly related to land, atmosphere, water, and other resources. Industrial solid waste has a large amount of production, complex and diverse components and contains a variety of harmful substances. However, as industrial by-products, it also has a lot of available value. Industrial solid waste has been continuously studied in water treatment due to its special composition and porous and loose structure. It is known that there are few reviews of various industrial solid wastes in the field of wastewater treatment, and most of them only discuss single industrial solid waste. This paper aims to sort out the different studies on various solid wastes such as fly ash, red mud, wastewater sludge, blast furnace slag and steel slag in dyeing, heavy metal, and phosphorus-containing wastewater. Based on the modification of industrial solid waste and the preparation of composite materials, adsorbents, coagulants, catalysts, filtration membranes, geological polymers, and other materials with high adsorption properties for pollutants in wastewater were formed; the prospect and development of these materials in the field of wastewater were discussed, which provides some ideas for the mutual balance of environment and society. Meanwhile, some limitations of solid waste applications for wastewater treatment have been put forward, such as a lack of further researches about environment-friendly modification methods, application costs, the heavy metal leaching, and toxicity assessment of industrial solid waste.

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The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 51974096, 52274259) and the Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education (NO. YCSW2022089) funded this work.

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All authors conceived the idea for the paper. Jie Xiang identified relevant literature and analyzed the data, and Guifang Wang wrote the original manuscript. Revisions were done by Guangchuan Liang, Jing Wang, Shaojian Ma, and Chunlin He. Supervision was done by Guifang Wang. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Wang, G., Xiang, J., Liang, G. et al. Application of common industrial solid waste in water treatment: a review. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 111766–111801 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-30142-2

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