PFAS fate and destruction mechanisms during thermal treatment: a comprehensive review

GK Longendyke, S Katel, Y Wang - Environmental Science: Processes …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent chemicals and have been
detected throughout the environment. Thermal treatment is the most common remediation …

Capabilities and mechanisms of microalgae on removing micropollutants from wastewater: A review

R Liu, S Li, Y Tu, X Hao - Journal of Environmental Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Micropollutants in wastewater are a set of compounds receiving a growing concern to the
environment and human health. As a green and low-cost process, microalgae-based …

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 …

Role of ammonia oxidation in organic micropollutant transformation during wastewater treatment: insights from molecular, cellular, and community level observations

Q Su, AR Schittich, MM Jensen, H Ng… - … Science & Technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organic micropollutants (OMPs) are a threat to aquatic environments, and wastewater
treatment plants may act as a source or a barrier of OMPs entering the environment …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities and challenges of machine learning in bioprocesses: categorization from different perspectives and future direction

SJ Lim, M Son, SJ Ki, SI Suh, J Chung - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have revolutionized an extensive range of
research and industry fields by successfully addressing intricate problems that cannot be …

Combining chemical, bioanalytical and predictive tools to assess persistence, seasonality, and sporadic releases of organic micropollutants within the urban water …

MJ Arlos, VI Arnold, JS Bumagat, J Zhou, KM Cereno… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Using a novel liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method with large volume
direct injection and quantitation via isotope dilution, we evaluated the presence of 55 …

Methodological advances to study contaminant biotransformation: new prospects for understanding and reducing environmental persistence?

K Fenner, M Elsner, T Lueders, MS McLachlan… - ACS Es&t …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Complex microbial communities in environmental systems play a key role in the
detoxification of chemical contaminants by transforming them into less active metabolites or …

Identifying functional groups that determine rates of micropollutant biotransformations performed by wastewater microbial communities

SL Rich, MT Zumstein, DE Helbling - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The goal of this research was to identify functional groups that determine rates of
micropollutant (MP) biotransformations performed by wastewater microbial communities. To …

Combining predictive and analytical methods to elucidate pharmaceutical biotransformation in activated sludge

L Trostel, C Coll, K Fenner, J Hafner - … Science: Processes & Impacts, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
While man-made chemicals in the environment are ubiquitous and a potential threat to
human health and ecosystem integrity, the environmental fate of chemical contaminants …