Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review

Wastewater treatment (WWT) plant treating pharmaceutical processing water produces sludge that may contain residue of the pharmaceutical products. This residue, known as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is known to show ecotoxicity to the environment. The sludge potential to be utilised as val...

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Main Authors: Mohd. Rudin, Siti Norlaila Faeizah, Shabri, Hazrul Adzfar, Ab. Muis, Zarina, Hashim, Haslenda, Ho, Wai Shin
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Published: The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering 2018
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spelling my.utm.841832019-12-16T03:20:40Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/84183/ Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review Mohd. Rudin, Siti Norlaila Faeizah Shabri, Hazrul Adzfar Ab. Muis, Zarina Hashim, Haslenda Ho, Wai Shin TP Chemical technology Wastewater treatment (WWT) plant treating pharmaceutical processing water produces sludge that may contain residue of the pharmaceutical products. This residue, known as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is known to show ecotoxicity to the environment. The sludge potential to be utilised as value added products or to be used as raw material for other processes is explored in this review. Currently there is lack of studies on the content of pharmaceutical WWT (pWWT) sludge and its added value usage, partly due to vast varieties of pharmaceutical products, each utilising different process with different removal success in WWT and different effect on bacterial growth. Residue API from pharmaceutical manufacturing is known to be sorbed on the surface of the sludge. Cross comparison using limited sources of studies of bacterial composition in pWWT with municipal WWT (mWWT) shows that there are similarities between the bacterial compositions and thus sludge composition since sludge from biological WWT is constituted mainly of microorganism and Extracellular Polymer Substance (EPS). Studies on pWWT sludge composting shows usability of the sludge for agriculture purpose, but with concern over the sorbed API content causing ecotoxicity on the soil. Converting pWWT to energy using gasification and biodiesel production and construction material are the most promising value-added usage for the sludge. The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering 2018 Article PeerReviewed Mohd. Rudin, Siti Norlaila Faeizah and Shabri, Hazrul Adzfar and Ab. Muis, Zarina and Hashim, Haslenda and Ho, Wai Shin (2018) Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 63 . pp. 493-498. ISSN 2283-9216 https://www.aidic.it/cet/
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Mohd. Rudin, Siti Norlaila Faeizah
Shabri, Hazrul Adzfar
Ab. Muis, Zarina
Hashim, Haslenda
Ho, Wai Shin
Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review
description Wastewater treatment (WWT) plant treating pharmaceutical processing water produces sludge that may contain residue of the pharmaceutical products. This residue, known as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is known to show ecotoxicity to the environment. The sludge potential to be utilised as value added products or to be used as raw material for other processes is explored in this review. Currently there is lack of studies on the content of pharmaceutical WWT (pWWT) sludge and its added value usage, partly due to vast varieties of pharmaceutical products, each utilising different process with different removal success in WWT and different effect on bacterial growth. Residue API from pharmaceutical manufacturing is known to be sorbed on the surface of the sludge. Cross comparison using limited sources of studies of bacterial composition in pWWT with municipal WWT (mWWT) shows that there are similarities between the bacterial compositions and thus sludge composition since sludge from biological WWT is constituted mainly of microorganism and Extracellular Polymer Substance (EPS). Studies on pWWT sludge composting shows usability of the sludge for agriculture purpose, but with concern over the sorbed API content causing ecotoxicity on the soil. Converting pWWT to energy using gasification and biodiesel production and construction material are the most promising value-added usage for the sludge.
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author Mohd. Rudin, Siti Norlaila Faeizah
Shabri, Hazrul Adzfar
Ab. Muis, Zarina
Hashim, Haslenda
Ho, Wai Shin
author_facet Mohd. Rudin, Siti Norlaila Faeizah
Shabri, Hazrul Adzfar
Ab. Muis, Zarina
Hashim, Haslenda
Ho, Wai Shin
author_sort Mohd. Rudin, Siti Norlaila Faeizah
title Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review
title_short Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review
title_full Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review
title_fullStr Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review
title_full_unstemmed Value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review
title_sort value-added waste potential of wastewater sludge from pharmaceutical industry: a review
publisher The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/84183/
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