Identification and Elucidation of the Designing
and Operational Issues of Trickling Filter Systems
for Wastewater Treatment

Imran Ali; Zahid M. Khan; Changsheng Peng; Iffat Naz; Muhammad Sultan; Mohsin Ali; Muhammad H. Mahmood; Yasir Niaz

doi:10.15244/pjoes/70627

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Identification and Elucidation of the Designing and Operational Issues of Trickling Filter Systems for Wastewater Treatment

Imran Ali¹, Zahid M. Khan², Changsheng Peng¹, Iffat Naz³, Muhammad Sultan²,
Mohsin Ali⁴, Muhammad H. Mahmood², Yasir Niaz⁵

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¹College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
²Department of Agricultural Engineering, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Bosan Road, Multan, Pakistan
³Department of Biology, Qassim University, Buraidah 51452, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
⁴Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 0600, Turkey
⁵Department of Environmental Management and Policy, Balochistan University of Information Technology,
Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta 87300, Pakistan

Submission date: 2017-03-26

Final revision date: 2017-04-21

Acceptance date: 2017-04-22

Online publication date: 2017-10-10

Publication date: 2017-11-07

Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2017;26(6):2431-2444

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/70627

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wastewater treatment

trickling filter systems

operational issues

performance issues

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Water pollution has become a major environmental concern for public and environmental health in developing countries. Water resources are being contaminated mainly due to mixing of domestic, municipal, and industrial wastewaters. The wastewater management and treatment situation is deplorable mainly because of financial constraints, the unavailability of technically trained human resources, and electricity shortages. Moreover, there is a challenge for the scientific community and wastewater management experts to explore cost-effective, simple, reliable, and efficient wastewater treatment systems. Therefore, the present review highlights the option of trickling filter (TF) systems for wastewater treatment in developing countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and African regions, etc. In addition, the solutions to the operational/performance issues of the TF system are explored and discussed in greater detail for designing/construction of new TF systems and retrofitting the existing TFs.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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