{"id":2439,"date":"2025-05-02T12:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:07:31","slug":"q-membrane-bioreactors-are-often-discussed-in-the-context-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-membrane-bioreactors-are-often-discussed-in-the-context-of","title":{"rendered":"Q. \u201cMembrane Bioreactors\u201d are often discussed in the context of:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Assisted reproductive technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drug delivery nanotechnologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vaccine production technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wastewater treatment technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:&nbsp;(d) Wastewater treatment technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"membrane-bioreactors\">Membrane Bioreactors:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The membrane bioreactor is a\u00a0<strong>highly efficient, low-cost, and environmentally friendly device for the in situ treatment of wastewater.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) combines\u00a0<strong>biological treatment with membrane filtration to remove both organic matter and suspended solids from wastewater<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It uses membranes to filter the treated wastewater, separating it from the microorganisms. This allows for higher solids concentrations in the bioreactor, reducing the size of the treatment tanks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Membrane-Bioreactors.jpg\" alt=\"Membrane Bioreactors\" class=\"wp-image-51784\" style=\"width:766px;height:auto\" title=\"UPSC Prelims Research: Science and Tech 2024 7\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Membrane-Bioreactors-1024x621.png\" alt=\"Membrane Bioreactors\" class=\"wp-image-51783\" style=\"width:774px;height:auto\" title=\"UPSC Prelims Research: Science and Tech 2024 8\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(d) Wastewater treatment technologies Membrane Bioreactors:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[44],"years":[49],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-science-and-tech","years-49"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":44,"label":"Science and Tech"}],"years":[{"value":49,"label":"2024"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Science and Tech","slug":"science-and-tech","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}