[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous Fenton catalysts: A review of recent advances

N Thomas, DD Dionysiou, SC Pillai - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Heterogeneous Fenton catalysts are emerging as excellent materials for applications related
to water purification. In this review, recent trends in the synthesis and application of …

A review on hospital wastewater treatment: A special emphasis on occurrence and removal of pharmaceutically active compounds, resistant microorganisms, and …

A Majumder, AK Gupta, PS Ghosal, M Varma - Journal of environmental …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The hospital wastewater imposes a potent threat to the security of human health concerning
its high vulnerability towards the outbreak of several diseases. Furthermore, the outbreak of …

A review of the influence of treatment strategies on antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes

VK Sharma, N Johnson, L Cizmas, TJ McDonald… - Chemosphere, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in the aquatic
environment have become an emerging contaminant issue, which has implications for …

Overview of the main disinfection processes for wastewater and drinking water treatment plants

MC Collivignarelli, A Abbà, I Benigna, S Sorlini… - Sustainability, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
The use of water disinfection as a public health measure reduces the spread of diseases.
Various disinfection technologies can be used to meet the pathogen inactivation demand in …

Removal of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in various wastewater treatment processes: An overview

J Wang, X Chen - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are emerging contaminants, which have been frequently
detected in different aquatic environments, posing potential risk to public health and …

Understanding the pathway of antibacterial activity of copper oxide nanoparticles

S Meghana, P Kabra, S Chakraborty, N Padmavathy - RSC advances, 2015‏ - pubs.rsc.org
This work investigates the role of oxidation state in the antibacterial activity of copper oxide
nanoparticles (NPs). The findings add strong support to a contact killing mechanism of …

Transition metal catalyzed sulfite auto-oxidation systems for oxidative decontamination in waters: A state-of-the-art minireview

D Zhou, L Chen, J Li, F Wu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Sulfate radical (SO 4 radical dot−) is believed to be one of the most highly reactive oxidants,
as superior as hydroxyl radical (HO radical dot), for various organic/inorganic contaminants …

Simultaneous removal of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes from pharmaceutical wastewater using the combinations of up-flow anaerobic sludge bed, anoxic …

J Hou, Z Chen, J Gao, Y **e, L Li, S Qin, Q Wang… - Water research, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical wastewater often contains high levels of antibiotic residues and serves as
an important reservoir for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, the current …

Distinguishing effects of ultraviolet exposure and chlorination on the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in municipal wastewater

MT Guo, QB Yuan, J Yang - Environmental science & technology, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Growing attention has been paid to the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)
in wastewater microbial communities; however, the disinfection processes, as microbial …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the persistence and disinfection of human coronaviruses and their viral surrogates in water and wastewater

AI Silverman, AB Boehm - Environmental Science & Technology …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to identify decay rate constants (k) of
human coronaviruses and their viral surrogates (ie, animal coronaviruses and the …