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Table 2 Wastewater characteristic and treatment process and abatement cost of the ten industries as research objects

From: Rule design and status quo evaluation on cross-industrial wastewater emissions trading in China’s typical industrial sectors

Industry

Average abatement cost y/t

Contaminant characteristics

Treatment

Others

SS

Organic matter

Toxicity

FP

2.06

High, food residue

High, easily degradable

Low

Biological

T

2.28

Cotton, wool and fiber

High, 10–80% degradable

Surfactant and dye

Physicochemical, biological, advanced oxidation

High temperature and chroma

PP

1.93

Mud and fiber

High, 10–50% degradable

Resin acid, unsaturated fatty acid

Physicochemical, biological, advanced oxidation

PCN

5.6

Silt and clay

High, hardly biodegradable, high petroleum

Heavy metals

Physicochemical, biological, chemical flocculation, advanced oxidation

High temperature and strong acidity or basicity

CP

3.64

High, hardly biodegradable

High, heavy metals, cyanide, phenol

Physicochemical, biological, electrochemical

High temperature

PI

4.07

High, microbial thallus, gruff

High, hardly biodegradable

Antibiotics

Physicochemical, biological, flocculation

MP

6.85

High, inorganic

Low

Heavy metal

Physicochemical, flocculation, sedimentation

GPM

6.2

High, hardly biodegradable

Heavy metal, cyanide

physical, chemical, advanced oxidation

TE

4.27

High, hardly biodegradable, engine oil

Heavy metal

Flocculation and sedimentation, advanced oxidation

EE

4.37

High, hardly biodegradable

Heavy metal, cyanide

Flocculation and sedimentation, advanced oxidation