[HTML][HTML] A review of emerging micro-pollutants in hospital wastewater: environmental fate and remediation options

OJ Ajala, JO Tijani, RB Salau, AS Abdulkareem… - Results in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hospitals played vital role in the maintenance and sustenance of human health. However,
hospital activities generate high volume of toxic solid and liquid containing diverse …

[HTML][HTML] A review on pharmaceuticals removal from waters by single and combined biological, membrane filtration and ultrasound systems

P Alfonso-Muniozguren, EA Serna-Galvis… - Ultrasonics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) such as pharmaceuticals commonly found in
urban and industrial wastewater are a potential threat to human health and have negative …

A critical review of advanced oxidation processes for emerging trace organic contaminant degradation: Mechanisms, factors, degradation products, and effluent …

A Tufail, WE Price, M Mohseni, BK Pramanik… - Journal of Water Process …, 2021 - Elsevier
The persistent nature and low biodegradability of a large number of trace organic
contaminants (TrOCs) reduce effectiveness of their removal by conventional wastewater …

[HTML][HTML] A risk based assessment approach for chemical mixtures from wastewater treatment plant effluents

S Finckh, LM Beckers, W Busch, E Carmona… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, 56 effluent samples from 52 European wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)
were investigated for the occurrence of 499 emerging chemicals (ECs) and their associated …

A review of wastewater treatment technologies for the degradation of pharmaceutically active compounds: Carbamazepine as a case study

S Feijoo, M Kamali, R Dewil - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The potential toxicological effects of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in natural
water bodies have received considerable critical attention over the past years, encouraging …

Pharmaceutical waste-water treatment via advanced oxidation based integrated processes: An engineering and economic perspective

AK Thakur, R Kumar, A Kumar, R Shankar… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
The presence of pharmaceutical compounds (PCs) in aqueous systems poses a significant
threat to ecological systems. Conventional methods are inadequate in removing these …

Laccase-assisted degradation of emerging recalcitrant compounds–A review

P Bhardwaj, N Kaur, M Selvaraj, HA Ghramh… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The main objective of this review is to provide up to date, brief, irrefutable, organized data on
the conducted experiments on a range of emerging recalcitrant compounds such as …

Metformin contamination in global waters: Biotic and abiotic transformation, byproduct generation and toxicity, and evaluation as a pharmaceutical indicator

Y He, Y Zhang, F Ju - Environmental Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metformin is the first-line antidiabetic drug and one of the most prescribed medications
worldwide. Because of its ubiquitous occurrence in global waters and demonstrated …

[HTML][HTML] Review of occurrence of pharmaceuticals worldwide for estimating concentration ranges in aquatic environments at the end of the last decade

R Hernández-Tenorio, E González-Juárez… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical compounds are ubiquitous pollutants detected in concentrations ranging
from ng L− 1 to µg L− 1 in aquatic environments worldwide. Hence, assessment of the …

Pharmaceutical and personal care products in different matrices: occurrence, pathways, and treatment processes

NJDG Reyes, FKF Geronimo, KAV Yano, HB Guerra… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
The procedures for analyzing pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are
typically tedious and expensive and thus, it is necessary to synthesize all available …