Emerging Enzyme-Based Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

Abstract

In an effort to reduce the need for increased treatment and because of its high importance, interest in "green-based technologies" for wastewater management has picked up in recent years. Green methods aim to be logistically feasible, reliable, efficient, less time and energy consuming and highly cost-effective. This review provides an overview of the state-of-the-art technologies currently used for wastewater treatment and proposes developing novel solutions using enzymes and enzyme-based conjugates to remediate active chemicals and their metabolic products thereby ensuring water reusability. Addressing the global challenges of water quality with biotechnological approaches will provide the optimum conditions for prolonged green decontamination and reduced logistical burdens.

Green Polymer Chemistry: Some Recent Developments and Examples

“…Maloney et al (35) provided an overview of the state-of-the-art technologies currently used for wastewater treatment and proposed developing novel solutions using enzymes and enzyme-based conjugates to remediate active chemicals and their metabolic products by ensuring water reusability.…”

“…Several chapters in this book deal with PLA (38)(39)(40)48). Enzymes and enzyme-based conjugates were proposed to be useful products for the treatment of wastewater (35).…”

Magnetically Responsive PA6 Microparticles with Immobilized Laccase Show High Catalytic Efficiency in the Enzymatic Treatment of Catechol

“…Laccases from different sources can be useful in a large number of applications ranging from food additives and beverage processing to biomedical diagnosis, pulp delignification, wood fiber modification, chemical, or medicinal synthesis, for production of biofuels [3,13,14]. Laccases have shown great promise in "green" synthesis and as polymerization mediators [15][16][17][18], in industrial effluent treatment including dye decolorization and degradation [19,20], as well as in wastewater and soil remediation [21].…”