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    Preliminary assessment of microfibers amount in textile wastewater
    (2022-05-20) AKYILDIZ, SİNEM HAZAL; YALÇIN, BAHATTİN; Akyildiz S. H. , Yalçın Eniş I., Sezgin H., Yalçin B.
    Textile wastewater is a complex mixture of inorganic compounds, polymers, organic products, dyes, and microfibers (MFs), including microplastics (MPs) and natural fibers. The treatment of textile wastewater, which contains a significant share of MFs, is of great importance to prevent the release of MPs in the environment. MPs analysis requires multiple phases of pretreatment (to eliminate the organic compounds), separation of the MFs from the water, and identification of the MPs among the MFs. This work presents the preliminary results of a research aimed at exploring two issues. Firstly, the pretreatment (through Fenton,H2O2, HCl, KOH and NaOH, applied at 25 °C for 5 days and 60 °C for 6 hours) of artificial textile wastewater, evaluating the effect of the different conditions on the MFs and the MPs. Secondly, the separation of MFs from a real textile wastewater sample through different processes (centrifugation, sink-float & filtration, filtration). The results of the pretreatment tests revealed Fenton, HCl, andH2O2at 25 °C for 5 days as the best performing chemicals and conditions. Considering the results of the separation tests, filtration gave back the best removal of the MFs from wastewater compared to centrifugation and sink-float and filtration, which left some MFs in the supernatant/float and in the sediment/sink. In conclusion, these preliminary results may be useful to further explore the detection of MFs and MPs in textile wastewater.
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    Detection and analysis of microfibers and microplastics in wastewater from a textile company
    (2022-10-01) YALÇIN, BAHATTİN; AKYILDIZ, SİNEM HAZAL; Akyildiz S. H. , Yalçın Eniş I., Sezgin H., Yalçin B.
    Textile wastewater is polluted by inorganic/organic substances, polymers, dyes, and microfibers (MFs), which are microplastics (MPs) and natural fibers. This work is aimed at the preliminary investigation of MFs and MPs in textile industrial wastewater, and at evaluating the removal efficiency of an on-site wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Ten samples of inflows and outflows of the WWTP of a textile company (applying a physic-chemical process) have been analyzed. Firstly, the samples underwent a pretreatment with 15% hydrogen peroxide at 25◦C for 5 days to remove organic compounds. Secondly, the MFs were recovered from the aqueous phase by pre- screening centrifugation, density separation, and filtration as alternative options. Filtration obtained the best performances, compared to the other recovery processes. Thirdly, the MFs were counted through optical microscopy and the MPs were identified through micro-FTIR. The MFs amount in the inflow samples was in the range of 893–4452 MFs/L. The outflow samples (310–2404 MFs/L) exhibited a 38–65% reduction compared to the inflows, demonstrating that up to 62% of residual MFs can enter the sewer network or the receiving water body. Cotton and wool, and numerous MPs (acrylic, polyester, polypropylene, polyamide, and viscose/rayon) were identified in the inflow and outflow samples (with the only exception of \"dense\" viscose (rayon), not detected in the out- flows, and probably retained by the WWTP with the sludge). This study, even if just preliminary, offers interesting hints for future research on MFs/MPs detection in textile wastewater, and on the performance of a full-scale WWT process for their removal.
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    Examining the Importance of Pretreatment to Capture and Analyze Microfibers from Textile Wastewater
    (2022-09-10) AKYILDIZ, SİNEM HAZAL; YALÇIN, BAHATTİN; Akyildiz S. H., Yalçin B., Yalçın Eniş I., Sezgin H.
    The textile industry is one of the causes of environmental problems, which have a negative effect on all organisms in the ecosystem. In addition to the textile wastes generated by the textile industry, wet processes (dyeing, rinsing, softening, mechanical/chemical finishing) release inorganic compounds, polymers, organic products, dyes, and microfibers (MFs) into the environment. Microfibers may also accumulate in marine species and be passed to higher trophic levels, including humans, through the food chain. In order to solve this problem, it is first necessary to correctly identify it. These stages are sample pretreatment, microplastic separation, and characterization/quantification. The aim of this research is to assess the significance of sample pretreatment in detecting microfibers in wastewater from various parts of a textile company. For the purpose of observing the effect of organic removal, half of the wastewater from each process was pretreated, while the other half was not. A 6-hour pretreatment at 60 °C with Fenton's reagent was performed. A microscope and FTIR were used to investigate the MFs collected on the filter. In particular, due to the rich amount of organic matter in inflow and outflow wastewater, the lack of pretreatment made the analysis very difficult. Additionally, the FTIR analysis failed to detect some of the distinctive peaks that should have been visible in the materials.