Zhi-Cheng Wu

2 weeks ago | sciencedirect.com | Jie Jenny Zou |Zhu Wang |Zhi-Cheng Wu |He-Ping Zhao

High-salinity industrial wastewater (e.g., from pickling, pharmaceuticals, and chemical industries) poses significant challenges to conventional activated sludge processes (Tan et al., 2019) due to its osmotic stress on microbial cells, leading to inhibited metabolic activity, cell lysis, and poor nitrogen removal efficiency (Kartal et al., 2006; Khatibi, 2019; Zhu et al., 2015).