Review on environmental aspects in smart city concept: Water, waste, air pollution and transportation smart applications using IoT techniques

MY Salman, H Hasar - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing urban populations due to factors such as more comfortable life and immigration
have turned self-sufficient traditional cities into mega-cities and caused several new …

Insight into pharmaceutical and personal care products removal using constructed wetlands: A comprehensive review

M Salah, Y Zheng, Q Wang, C Li, Y Li, F Li - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) were regarded as emerging
environmental pollutants due to their ubiquitous appearance and high environmental risks …

High-efficiency photo-Fenton Fe/g-C3N4/kaolinite catalyst for tetracycline hydrochloride degradation

Z Cao, Y Jia, Q Wang, H Cheng - Applied Clay Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional homogeneous Fenton reactions can only be carried out under acidic conditions;
however, visible light can greatly enhance the activity and stability of iron-doped …

Mass trends of parabens, triclocarban and triclosan in Arizona wastewater collected after the 2017 FDA ban on antimicrobials and during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Adhikari, R Kumar, EM Driver, TD Perleberg… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimicrobials like parabens, triclosan (TCS), and triclocarban (TCC) are of public health
concern worldwide due to their endocrine-disrupting properties and ability to promote …

Peroxymonosulfate activated by composite ceramic membrane for the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) mixture: Insights of catalytic …

L Chen, T Maqbool, G Nazir, C Hou, Y Xu, Y Yang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
A composite manganese-based catalytic ceramic membrane (Mn-CCM) was developed by a
solid-state sintering method, and its effectiveness toward activation of peroxymonosulfate …

Water pollution reduction for sustainable urban development using machine learning techniques

I Priyadarshini, A Alkhayyat, AJ Obaid, R Sharma - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Water quality is affected by increased urbanization as pollutants produced in the urban
environment settle and contaminate water, and there is an increase in competition of water …

Construction of 3D porous BiOBr/MIL-101 (Cr) Z-scheme heterostructure for boosted photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline hydrochloride

M Wu, M Huang, B Zhang, Y Li, S Liu, H Wang… - Separation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The challenge for efficient photocatalysis lies in the adsorption, reuse capacity and charge
separation. Herein, we constructed a Büchner funnel-like three-dimensional (3D) porous …

A review of combined sewer overflows as a source of wastewater-derived emerging contaminants in the environment and their management

B Petrie - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021 - Springer
Emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and personal care products
can be released to the environment in untreated wastewater/stormwater mixtures following …

Surface oxygen vacancies formation on Zn2SnO4 for bisphenol-A degradation under visible light: The tuning effect by peroxymonosulfate

LQ Yu, YH Zhao, H Wang, F **, SL Chen… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Visible light catalysis has been widely coupled with persulfate activation for refractory
pollutants removal, while the exact role of persulfate played in such composite system is still …

Road runoff as a significant nonpoint source of parabens and their metabolites in urban rivers

X Zhao, Y Zheng, F Quan, S Hu, Q Wu, M Luo, Y Gu… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Parabens are widely added to food, cosmetics, and medicines as preservatives and are
typical contaminants of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs). However …