Anticancer drugs in wastewater and natural environments: A review on their occurrence, environmental persistence, treatment, and ecological risks

A Castellano-Hinojosa, MJ Gallardo-Altamirano… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The consumption of anticancer drugs (also known as chemotherapy drugs or antineoplastic
drugs) has augmented over the last decades due to increased cancer incidence. Although …

Removal of emerging micropollutants by activated sludge process and membrane bioreactors and the effects of micropollutants on membrane fouling: A review

AT Besha, AY Gebreyohannes, RA Tufa… - Journal of environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently, emerging contaminants such as micropollutants presence in water poses
significant challenge to regulators, engineers and scientific community. Micropollutants are …

Removal of cytostatic drugs from aquatic environment: a review

J Zhang, VWC Chang, A Giannis, JY Wang - Science of the Total …, 2013 - Elsevier
Cytostatic drugs have been widely used for chemotherapy for decades. However, many of
them have been categorized as carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic compounds …

[Књига][B] Bioanalytical tools in water quality assessment

P Neale, F Leusch, B Escher - 2021 - library.oapen.org
The first edition of Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment was released in 2012.
The field has exploded since and the second edition updates and reviews the application of …

Treatment of hospital wastewater by supercritical water oxidation process

S Top, M Akgün, E Kıpçak, MS Bilgili - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Hospital wastewater contains several micro and macro pollutants that cannot be removed
efficiently by conventional treatment processes. Thus, generally hybrid and multistage …

Applications of membrane bioreactors for water reclamation: micropollutant removal, mechanisms and perspectives

J Ma, R Dai, M Chen, SJ Khan, Z Wang - Bioresource Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) have attracted attention in water reclamation as a result of
the recent technical advances and cost reduction in membranes. However, the increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Synchronous removal of pharmaceutical contaminants and inactivation of pathogenic microorganisms in real hospital wastewater by electro-peroxone …

Y Yu, Z **ong, B Huang, X Wang, Y Du, C He… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, a highly efficient electro-peroxone (E-peroxone) process with graphite felt as ozone
diffusion electrode (ODE) was developed for the synchronous removal of pharmaceutical …

Threat and sustainable technological solution for antineoplastic drugs pollution: Review on a persisting global issue

A Yadav, ER Rene, MK Mandal, KK Dubey - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, the discharge of pharmaceuticals and their presence in the aquatic
environment have been continuously increasing and this has caused serious public health …

Membrane bioreactor and nanofiltration hybrid system for reclamation of municipal wastewater: removal of nutrients, organic matter and micropollutants

K Chon, H KyongShon, J Cho - Bioresource technology, 2012 - Elsevier
A membrane bioreactor (MBR) and nanofiltration (NF) hybrid system was investigated to
demonstrate the performance of treating nitrogen, phosphorus and pharmaceuticals and …

Occurrence of cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide in aqueous environment and their removal by biological and abiotic wastewater treatment processes

M Česen, T Kosjek, M Laimou-Geraniou… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cytostatic drug residues in the aqueous environment are of concern due to their possible
adverse effects on non-target organisms. Here we report the occurrence and removal …