Recent advances and perspectives in the treatment of hydroponic wastewater: a review

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REVIEW PAPER

Recent advances and perspectives in the treatment of hydroponic wastewater: a review Amina Richa

. Sami Touil

. Meriem Fizir

. Vicente Martinez

Received: 11 August 2020 / Accepted: 10 October 2020  Springer Nature B.V. 2020

Abstract Rapid development of hydroponic farming which is soilless cultivation method of growing plant using mineral nutrient solution dissolved in water produces large amount of wastewater rich in nutrients and organic matters thus imposes great harms to human and environment, if the waste nutrient solution is not correctly treated. The objective of this review is to present information concerning hydroponic systems, including: the different classes and methods of operation; advantages and drawbacks and the recent approaches and development in hydroponic wastewater treatments. Particular emphasis has been placed on removal of root exudates from reused waste nutrient solution in closed system. The reviewed technologies for nutrient removal or recovery include denitrification, microalgae cultivation, constructed

wetlands and activated carbon methods. The alternatives byproducts i.e. biogas as agriculture fertilizer for hydroponic cultivation to attain sustainable agriculture was further highlighted. In addition, current challenges and future prospects in this field are carried out. About 118 published studies are reviewed in this paper. It is evident from the literature survey articles that activated carbon is the most frequently studied for the nutrient recovery of hydroponic wastewater. Keywords Hydroponic system  Hydroponic wastewaters  Organic fertilizers  Nutrient removal and recovery  Root exudates

1 Introduction A. Richa (&)  S. Touil (&) Research Laboratory of Agricultural Production and Sustainable Development of Natural Resources, University of Djilali Bounaama, Khemis Miliana, Algeria e-mail: [email protected] S. Touil e-mail: [email protected] M. Fizir (&) Laboratoire de Valorisation des Substances Naturelles, Universite´ Djilali Bounaaˆma, Khemis-Miliana, Algeria e-mail: [email protected] V. Martinez Department of Plant Nutrition, CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain

At present, productivity and environmentally friendly are the biggest challenge facing traditional agriculture or soil cultivation because of climate change effects (increases in temperature and extreme weather events) that increase the threats to soil such as reduced soil fertility, presence of disease-causing organisms and nematodes in soil, unfavorable soil compaction, degradation due to erosion, etc. (Surendran et al. 2017; Sengupta and Banerjee 2012). In other hand, the world population is estimated to reach 9–10 billion habitants in 2050 (Souza et al. 2019; Kumar and Cho 2014). Thus, land available for food production will

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decline due to urban expansion and consumption for food will increase, putting added strains on water resources (Magwaza et al. 2020a; Gentry 2019). Therefore, fresh water will be a ma