Drinking water treatment and associated toxic byproducts: Concurrence and urgence

M Kumar, S Shekhar, R Kumar, P Kumar… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reclaimed water is highly required for environmental sustainability and to meet sustainable
development goals (SDGs). Chemical processes are frequently associated with highly …

Addressing main challenges in the tertiary treatment of urban wastewater: are homogeneous photodriven AOPs the answer?

L Rizzo - Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Homogeneous photodriven advanced oxidation processes (HP-AOPs) have been
increasingly investigated in past years as a possible alternative solution to conventional …

Effect of chlorine disinfectant influx on biological sewage treatment process under the COVID-19 pandemic: performance, mechanisms and implications

C Dang, Y Zhang, M Zheng, Q Meng, J Wang, Y Zhong… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, large amounts of chlorine-containing
disinfectants have been used to interrupt the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and residual chlorine …

Effects of trace PFOA on microbial community and metabolisms: Microbial selectivity, regulations and risks

C Chen, Y Fang, X Cui, D Zhou - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a" forever chemical", is continuously discharged
and mitigated in the environment despite its production and use being severely restricted …

Migration of rare and abundant species, assembly mechanisms, and ecological networks of microbiomes in drinking water treatment plants: Effects of different …

W Sun, Z **g - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Microorganisms play an important role in the degradation of pollutants. However, they also
cause problems in drinking water distribution systems, such as pipe corrosion and biofilm …

Identification of significant live bacterial community shifts in different reclaimed waters during ozone and chlorine disinfection

Q Shi, Z Chen, H Yan, M Xu, KF Cao, Y Mao… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ozone and chlorine are the most widely used disinfectants for water and wastewater
disinfection. They play important role in microbial inactivation but could also pose a …

Application of UVC and UVC based advanced disinfection technologies for the inactivation of antibiotic resistance genes and elimination of horizontal gene transfer …

S Ghosh, Y Chen, J Hu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Extensive application of antibiotics in the last few decades has promoted selective pressure
to disseminate antibiotic resistance in the aquatic environment. Antibiotic-resistant genes …

Comparison of inactivation characteristics between Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria in water by synergistic UV and chlorine disinfection

X Chen, Z Chen, HH Ngo, Y Mao, K Cao, Q Shi… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Disinfection is essential in water and wastewater treatment process as a guarantee for
microbial safety. This study systematically investigated:(i) the inactivation characteristics of …

Antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial diversity: A comparative molecular study of treated sewage from different origins and their impact on irrigated soils

SS Shekhawat, NM Kulshreshtha, P Saini, A Upadhyay… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Present study aims to investigate how is soil affected following irrigation with treated
effluents of different origins by analysing the bacterial diversity, metabolic diversity and …

Insight into the surface discharge cold plasma efficient inactivation of Pseudomonas fluorescens in water based on exogenous reactive oxygen and nitrogen species …

JB Ni, CJ Ding, JS Zhang, XM Fang, HW **ao - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
As well known, surface discharge cold plasma has efficient inactivation ability and a variety
of RONS are main active particles for inactivation, but their synergistic mechanism is still not …