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Research prospect of fibrous microplastics removal in aquatic environment

CHEN Junliang1,2, WU Jing1,3, WANG Huaping1,3, YANG Jianping1,2()   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
    2. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
    3. Co-Innovation Center for Textile Industry, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
  • Received:2021-02-22 Revised:2021-03-11 Online:2021-06-15 Published:2021-06-25
  • Contact: YANG Jianping E-mail:jianpingyang@dhu.edu.cn

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Abstract:

As an emerging pollutants in aquatic environment, microplastics are attracting the attention from researchers and the general public. The traditional operations in wastewater treatment plants cannot completely remove the microplastics, and the leaked small sized microplastics and fibrous microplastics continuously accumulate in the environment causing harm to living things. In order to reduce the pollution of microplastics in the environment, this review summarized the current microplastics removal technologies in aquatic environment and discussed the mechanism, efficiency and feasibility of these technologies. Furthermore, with respect to the low fibrous microplastics removal efficiency during traditional water treatments as well as the lack of efforts on fibrous microplastics removal among current researches, the development trend of fibrous microplastics removal technologies in the future was prospected from four aspects, which are the reform of traditional water treatments, the importance of fibrous microplastics, exploration of thorough and innocuous removal of fibrous microplastics, and utilization of fibrous microplastics as resources.

Key words: microplastic, wastewater treatment, fibrous microplastic, removal technology, aquatic environment

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Fig.1

Overview of MPs removal efficiency in wastewater treatment plants versus MPs in raw water, and pathways of microplastics returning to aquatic environment"

Tab.1

Comparison of current MPs removal technologies"

去除技术 去除对象 去除体系 去除率/% 优点 缺点 参考文献
混凝 PE颗粒 FeCl3·6H2O 13.27±2.19 PAM的加入可明显提高去除率 对于直径小于1 μm的微塑料去除能力较差 [31]
PE颗粒 FeCl3·6H2O + PAM 90.91±1.01 [31]
过滤 混合微塑料 反渗透膜 90.45 对于尺寸大于膜孔径的微塑料去除率较高 膜污染 [29]
硅藻土 动态模 浊度去除率99.49 能耗低,利用微塑料形成动态模 进水浊度越高,污染物泄露越严重 [32]
混合微塑料 膜生物反应器 99.9 目前所报道的最高去除率 膜污染、堵塞和破损 [33]
吸附 PS微球 3DRGO 56.08~89.04 最大吸附能力为
617.28 mg/g 		去除率随微塑料浓度的升高而下降,暂处于实验室阶段 [34]
PS纳米球 Zn-Al LDH 96 最大吸附能力为
164.49 mg/g 		水中阴离子与微塑料吸附,暂处于实验室阶段 [35]
高级氧化 PE颗粒 SR-AOPs 54(质量减少) 降解产物毒性低 降解体系在密闭条件下进行,暂处于实验室阶段 [36]
PVC颗粒 电类芬顿 56(质量减少) 避免额外加入H2O2、活性物种在电驱动下持续再生 [37]
光催化 PS微球 固相光催化 98.4(矿化率) 绿色、高效地彻底去除微塑料 单次微塑料处理量较低,需要提供额外的紫外光源 [38]
PET微纤维 液相光催化 未计算 利用可见光,将纤维微塑料转化成小分子化学品、降解同时产氢 纤维微塑料质量浓度小于5 mg/mL时反应不发生 [39]
微生物降解 PET薄片 LCC酶解 60(14 d) 花费较低 降解速率慢、效率低 [40]
PET薄片 改性LCC酶解 90(10 h) 降解速率快,效率高 酶改性过程较为困难 [41]
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