Water analysis: emerging contaminants and current issues

SD Richardson, SY Kimura - Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
This biennial review covers developments in water analysis for emerging environmental
contaminants over the period of October 2017− October 2019. Analytical Chemistry's policy …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting and improving the microbial removal of organic micropollutants during wastewater treatment: A review

AB Rios-Miguel, TJHM van Bergen, C Zillien… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic micropollutants (OMPs) consist of widely used chemicals such as pharmaceuticals
and pesticides that can persist in surface and groundwaters at low concentrations (ng/L to …

Nonnutritive sweeteners can promote the dissemination of antibiotic resistance through conjugative gene transfer

Z Yu, Y Wang, J Lu, PL Bond, J Guo - The ISME Journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a worldwide threat to human health and biosecurity.
The spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) via conjugative plasmid transfer is a major …

Poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances in municipal wastewater treatment plants in the United States: seasonal patterns and meta-analysis of long-term trends and …

KA Thompson, S Mortazavian, DJ Gonzalez… - Acs Es&T …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This paper presents an up-to-date meta-analysis assessing per-and polyfluoroalkyl
substance (PFAS) concentrations at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) as well as …

Daily Monitoring at a Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plant Reveals Temporally Variable Micropollutant Biotransformations

SL Rich, DE Helbling - Environmental Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite decades of micropollutant (MP) monitoring at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs),
we lack a fundamental understanding of the time-varying metabolic processes driving MP …

Solar-powered Janus membrane for one-step conversion of sewage to clean water

Q Zhao, C Du, Y Jia, J Yuan, G Song, X Zhou… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Today, people face a global challenge of clean water shortage due to a combination of
freshwater scarcity and huge sewage discharge. To preserve human sustainability, it is …

Dynamics of emerging organic contaminant removal in conventional and intensified subsurface flow treatment wetlands

J Nivala, S Kahl, J Boog, M van Afferden… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Six pilot-scale treatment wetlands treating municipal wastewater were monitored for
classical wastewater parameters and selected Emerging Organic Compounds (EOCs) …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater microorganisms impact the micropollutant biotransformation potential of natural stream biofilms

WL Desiante, L Carles, S Wullschleger, A Joss… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Biotransformation is the most important process removing manmade chemicals from the
environment, yet mechanisms governing this essential ecosystem function are …

Scientific concepts and methods for moving persistence assessments into the 21st century

R Davenport, P Curtis‐Jackson… - Integrated …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The evaluation of a chemical substance's persistence is key to understanding its
environmental fate, exposure concentration, and, ultimately, environmental risk. Traditional …

A Z-scheme mechanism of the novel ZnO/CuO nn heterojunction for photocatalytic degradation of Acid Orange 7

S Ruan, W Huang, M Zhao, H Song, Z Gao - Materials Science in …, 2020 - Elsevier
A series of novel ZnO/CuO nn heterojunction photocatalysts were synthesized with a
microwave assisted method. The structures, morphologies, optical properties, and chemical …