Journal
WATER
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w14020243
Keywords
hospital effluent polishing; activated carbon; ozonation-UV irradiation; SWOT-SOR analysis
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This study investigates the potential exploitation of activated carbon-based technologies and advanced oxidation processes for the polishing treatment of hospital effluent. By combining SWOT and SOR analysis, it is found that both technologies have strengths and opportunities, and further research and development could improve their potential applications.
The management and treatment of hospital wastewater are issues of great concern worldwide. Both in the case of a dedicated treatment or co-treatment with urban wastewater, hospital effluent is generally subjected to pre-treatments followed by a biological step. A polishing treatment is suggested to promote (and guarantee) the removal of micropollutants still present and to reduce the total pollutant load released. Activated carbon-based technologies and advanced oxidation processes have been widely investigated from technical and economic viewpoints and applied in many cases. In this study, the potential exploitation of these technologies for the polishing treatment of hospital effluent is investigated by combining a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis with a Strategic Orientation (SOR) analysis. This approach allows a coherent strategy to be extracted from the SWOT-SOR data, increasing the chances of success of each technology. It emerges that both technologies present relevant and sometimes similar strengths and can present opportunities. At the same time, activated carbon-based technologies are more likely to contain the main identified threats than O-3/UV technology. The study also finds that, for both technologies, further research and development could improve their potential applications in the treatment of hospital wastewater.
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