Wastewater remediation via controlled hydrocavitation

Controlled hydrodynamic cavitation is an energy and chemicals-saving technology increasingly applied to water sanitation and wastewater remediation via mechanical, oxidative and thermal degradation of chemical and biological pollutants, including recalcitrant contaminants. Reviewing the advances that allowed hydrocavitation to emerge as an economically and technically viable environmental technology, we identify the key design parameters that decide its efficacy in degrading biological and chemical contaminants. The ongoing renewable energy boom lowering the cost of electricity across the world, will only accelerate the adoption of hydrodynamic cavitation as an eminent technology of our common path to sustainability, with energy and clean water access for all.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author