Environmental fate of nanoparticles and their impacts on anaerobic digestion process


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KÖKDEMİR ÜNŞAR E., PERENDECİ N. A.

PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI MUHENDISLIK BILIMLERI DERGISI, cilt.22, sa.6, ss.503-512, 2016 (ESCI) identifier

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Compared to larger sized particles, nanoparticles have very different electrochemical, catalytic, optical, physical and chemical properties. Because of these different properties, nanoparticles are widely used in industry. By the contact of water from dishwashing, shower, rain, etc., nanoparticle containing products release nanoparticles and waste water carries them to waste water treatment plants. In this study, information about industrial use and potential toxic effects of nanoparticles were given. The advantages of anaerobic digestion process which is used effectively for energy producing from sludge biomass is explained and researches with a focus on the impacts of nanoparticles, which involve in anaerobic digestion due to their environmental pathway, on anaerobic digestion process have been reviewed.