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Recent advances in brewery wastewater treatment; approaches for water reuse and energy recovery: a review

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Brewery industry is one of the largest users of water and characterized by high levels of organic pollutants, and requires higher attention for remediation before discharge to the environment. This paper aims at providing a review of methods for treating brewery wastewater based implications using the state-of-the-art biological treatment technologies leading to water reuse and/or energy production. This could be linked to resource recovery as a sound and economic approach to alleviate fresh water scarcity and shortage of energy supply. In this review, the components of various bioreactors (i.e. membranes bioreactors, fluidized bed bioreactor and anaerobic bioreactors) and how efficiently these reactors can be utilized for treating and reuse of brewery wastewater are highlighted.

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  1. Department of Environmental Health Science, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, P.O. Box 1871, Mekelle, Ethiopia

    Adhena Ayaliew Werkneh

  2. Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Adigrat University, P.O. Box 50, Adigrat, Ethiopia

    Hayelom Dargo Beyene

  3. Projects Development Institute, PRODA (Federal Ministry of Science and Technology), PMB 01609, Emene, Enugu, Nigeria

    Abduljeleel A. Osunkunle

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Werkneh, A.A., Beyene, H.D. & Osunkunle, A.A. Recent advances in brewery wastewater treatment; approaches for water reuse and energy recovery: a review. Environmental Sustainability 2, 199–209 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42398-019-00056-2

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