ABSTRACT
Growing population and industrialization significantly affect the environment and human health via producing and discharging emerging pollutants (EPs) into the environment. It also raises worldwide concern owing to its low concentration and severe toxicity to human health and ecosystems. Therefore, pursuing sustainable advances within industries and strengthening natural environments is the highest priority to enable the health of living beings and the atmosphere. It has been discovered that wastewater treatment plants are the main obstacles to release EPs into the environment. Therefore, this chapter aims to review recent approaches on photocatalytic membrane application for treating EPs in wastewater. First, this chapter provides an overview of EPs in wastewater and the processes for treating EPs. It is followed by discussion on the recent applications of photocatalytic membranes, fabrication, and their performance in treating EPs. The challenges and future ways forward in applying photocatalytic membrane for EPs treatment are also highlighted. Finally, this chapter concluded that photocatalytic membrane could become a potential candidate to provide an excellent treatment of Eps wastewater through synergistic adsorption, photocatalytic degradation, filtration under light irradiation, and demineralizing of the initial and intermediate pollutants into carbon dioxide and water.
