Occurrence of pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater: removal, mass load and environmental risk after a secondary treatment—a review

P Verlicchi, M Al Aukidy, E Zambello - Science of the total environment, 2012 - Elsevier
This review focuses on 118 pharmaceuticals, belonging to seventeen different therapeutic
classes, detected in raw urban wastewater and effluent from an activated sludge system, a …

Comparison and performance assessment of ozone-based AOPs in view of trace organic contaminants abatement in water and wastewater: a review

Z Liu, K Demeestere, S Van Hulle - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) have been increasingly found in the aquatic
environment and their potential health risk on human and wildlife has attracted more …

Treatment of micropollutants in municipal wastewater: ozone or powdered activated carbon?

J Margot, C Kienle, A Magnet, M Weil, L Rossi… - Science of the total …, 2013 - Elsevier
Many organic micropollutants present in wastewater, such as pharmaceuticals and
pesticides, are poorly removed in conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). To …

The efficiency and mechanisms of catalytic ozonation

J Nawrocki, B Kasprzyk-Hordern - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2010 - Elsevier
Catalytic ozonation has recently gained significant attention as an effective process used for
the removal of organics from water. Unfortunately, despite increasing research efforts in the …

Degradation of sulfamethoxazole by microwave-activated persulfate: kinetics, mechanism and acute toxicity

C Qi, X Liu, C Lin, X Zhang, J Ma, H Tan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermal activation of persulfate was confirmed to be effective in the destruction of organic
pollutants. Microwave heating has different inherent mechanism from that of conventional …

Transformation products of pharmaceuticals in surface waters and wastewater formed during photolysis and advanced oxidation processes–degradation, elucidation …

D Fatta-Kassinos, MI Vasquez, K Kümmerer - Chemosphere, 2011 - Elsevier
The significance of transformation products of pharmaceuticals resulting from the parent
compounds during natural and technical photolytic processes and advanced oxidation …

Elimination of micropollutants during post-treatment of hospital wastewater with powdered activated carbon, ozone, and UV

L Kovalova, H Siegrist, U Von Gunten… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
A pilot-scale hospital wastewater treatment plant consisting of a primary clarifier, membrane
bioreactor, and five post-treatment technologies including ozone (O3), O3/H2O2, powdered …

Recent advances in environmental risk assessment of transformation products

BI Escher, K Fenner - Environmental science & technology, 2011 - ACS Publications
When micropollutants degrade in the environment, they may form persistent and toxic
transformation products, which should be accounted for in the environmental risk …

Oxidation of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) by chlorine, ozone and permanganate—A comparative study

S Gao, Z Zhao, Y Xu, J Tian, H Qi, W Lin… - Journal of hazardous …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sulfamethoxazole (SMX), a typical sulfonamide antibiotic, has been widely detected in
secondary wastewater effluents and surface waters. In this work we investigated the …

Spoilt for choice: a critical review on the chemical and biological assessment of current wastewater treatment technologies

C Prasse, D Stalter, U Schulte-Oehlmann, J Oehlmann… - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
The knowledge we have gained in recent years on the presence and effects of compounds
discharged by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) brings us to a point where we must …