Current research trends on emerging contaminants pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs): A comprehensive review

M Kumar, S Sridharan, AD Sawarkar, A Shakeel… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical and personnel care products (PPCPs) from wastewater are a potential
hazard to the human health and wildlife, and their occurrence in wastewater has caught the …

Pharmaceuticals of emerging concern in aquatic systems: chemistry, occurrence, effects, and removal methods

M Patel, R Kumar, K Kishor, T Mlsna… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In the last few decades, pharmaceuticals, credited with saving millions of lives, have
emerged as a new class of environmental contaminant. These compounds can have both …

Advances in identifying and managing emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems: Analytical approaches, toxicity assessment, transformation pathways …

M Mofijur, MM Hasan, SF Ahmed, F Djavanroodi… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants (ECs) are increasingly recognized as threats to human health and
ecosystems. This review evaluates advanced analytical methods, particularly mass …

Phytoremediation as a green biotechnology tool for emerging environmental pollution: a step forward towards sustainable rehabilitation of the environment

MB Kurade, YH Ha, JQ **ong, SP Govindwar… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The industrial revolution in the production of pharmaceuticals and personal care products
(PPCPs) has significantly improved public health in recent years. However, this …

Occurrence and fate of emerging pollutants in water environment and options for their removal

IC Vasilachi, DM Asiminicesei, DI Fertu, M Gavrilescu - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Emerging pollutants (EPs) are chemicals known to cause major impacts on the terrestrial,
aquatic life and human health as a result of their chronic and acute toxicity. Although lots of …

Comparative overview of advanced oxidation processes and biological approaches for the removal pharmaceuticals

N Taoufik, W Boumya, M Achak, M Sillanpää… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, pharmaceuticals are the center of significant environmental research due to their
complex and highly stable bioactivity, increasing concentration in the water streams and …

Performance of secondary wastewater treatment methods for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern implicated in crop uptake and antibiotic resistance …

P Krzeminski, MC Tomei, P Karaolia… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) discharged in effluents of wastewater treatment
plants (WWTPs), not specifically designed for their removal, pose serious hazards to human …

Progress in the biological and chemical treatment technologies for emerging contaminant removal from wastewater: a critical review

MB Ahmed, JL Zhou, HH Ngo, W Guo… - Journal of hazardous …, 2017 - Elsevier
This review focuses on the removal of emerging contaminants (ECs) by biological, chemical
and hybrid technologies in effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Results …

A review of the biotransformations of priority pharmaceuticals in biological wastewater treatment processes

PY Nguyen, G Carvalho, MAM Reis, A Oehmen - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater effluent discharges have been considered as one of the main sources of
synthetic chemicals entering into the aquatic environment. Even though they occur at low …

Application of common duckweed (Lemna minor) in phytoremediation of chemicals in the environment: State and future perspective

AO Ekperusi, FD Sikoki, EO Nwachukwu - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past 50 years, different strategies have been developed for the remediation of
polluted air, land and water. Driven by public opinion and regulatory bottlenecks, ecological …