Environmental applications of Effective Microorganisms: a review of current knowledge and recommendations for future directions

Journal of Engineering and Applied Science

Table 2 Applications of EM in wastewater treatment

Type of wastewater	Pollutants studied	Process/reactor	Ref.
Samples from the sewage pipe	Heavy metals	Batch	[49]
Municipal wastewater	COD, TN	Sequencing batch reactor	[22]
Beet sugar wastewater	COD, BOD, TDS	Batch	[15]
Domestic sewage	Alkalinity, TDS, BOD, COD	Batch	[28]
Raw sewage	BOD, COD, TDS, TSS	Batch	[26]
Primary settled municipal wastewater	COD, BOD, TSS, NH₃, TP	Anaerobic sequencing batch reactor	[4]
Synthetic wastewater	Heavy metals	Adsorption	[45]
Rubber processing wastewater	COD, BOD, turbidity, TSS	Anaerobic sequencing batch reactor	[7]
Aquaculture wastewater	NH₃, TP	Batch	[21]
Raw sewage	COD, BOD, TP	Modified contact stabilization activated sludge	[35]
Gray water	TSS, COD, BOD, oil, and grease	Jar test	[2]
Sago industry wastewater	COD, TSS	Hybrid upflow anerobic sludge blanket	[32]
Synthetic wastewater	Basic dyes	Adsorption	[8]
Domestic wastewater	COD, BOD, TSS, TDS, NO₃	Batch	[40]
Primary settled municipal wastewater	COD, TAN	Moving bed biofilm reactor	[36]