Removal of Micropollutants in Industrial Wastewater Using Microalgae

Chapter 17 Removal of Micropollutants in Industrial Wastewater Using Microalgae Melih Onay, Melih Onay Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Department of Environmental Engineering, Van,, 65080 TurkeySearch for more papers by this authorAytun Onay, Aytun Onay Turkish Aeronautical Association University, Engineering Faculty, Software Engineering, Ankara,, 06790 TurkeySearch for more papers by this author Melih Onay, Melih Onay Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Department of Environmental Engineering, Van,, 65080 TurkeySearch for more papers by this authorAytun Onay, Aytun Onay Turkish Aeronautical Association University, Engineering Faculty, Software Engineering, Ankara,, 06790 TurkeySearch for more papers by this author Book Editor(s):Gokare A. Ravishankar, Gokare A. Ravishankar Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Bengaluru, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorAmbati Ranga Rao, Ambati Ranga Rao Technology and Research (Deemed to be University), Vignan's Foundation for Science, Andhra Pradesh, Guntur, 522213 IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorSe-Kwon Kim, Se-Kwon Kim Hanyang University ERICA, 55 Hanyangdae-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, 11558 South KoreaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 March 2024 https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527843367.ch17 AboutPDFPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShareShare a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Summary Microalgae are gaining popularity due to their rapid growth and ability to use organic metabolism, for the removal of micropollutants from wastewater ( WW ). Micropollutants can be defined as pollutants that are present at the level of micrograms per liter and have a bad effect on the environment and living life and microalgae can remove these compounds, such as organic, inorganic, pharmaceutical, and hormonally active substances, from industrial WW. The purpose of this chapter is to explain how microalgae can be used to remove micropollutants from industrial WW using methods such as adsorption, bioaccumulation, photodegradation, biotransformation, volatilization, and biodegradation, and to investigate how artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, random forests, long-short term memory, and reinforcement learning methods in wastewater treatment. References Abdelfattah , A. , Ali , S.S. , Ramadan , H. et al. ( 2023 ). Microalgae-based wastewater treatment: mechanisms, challenges, recent advances, and future prospects . 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