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Isabela M. Dias, Lucas C. Mourão, Guilherme B. M. De Souza, Jose M. Abelleira-Pereira, Julles M. Dos Santos-Junior, Antônio C. D. De Freitas, Lucio Cardozo-Filho, Christian G. Alonso and Reginaldo Guirardello
Pharmaceutical pollutants are considered emerging contaminants, representing a significant concern to the ecosystem. Thus, this study reports on the degradation of antihypertensive and cardiovascular drugs (atenolol, captopril, propranolol hydrochloride,...
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Tharaa M. Al-Zghoul, Zakaria Al-Qodah and Ahmad Al-Jamrah
The combination of the chemical coagulation-assisted electrocoagulation (CC-EC) process with a solar photovoltaic energy source has attracted increasing attention for the efficient removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) from pharmaceutical wastewater. I...
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Syed I. Hussain, Carol J. Ptacek, David W. Blowes, YingYing Liu, Brent C. Wootton, Gordon Balch and James Higgins
The occurrence of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), nutrients, and an artificial sweetener acesulfame in wastewater, and subsequent removal in an engineered system comprising aerobic wetland, anaerobic wetland, and steel slag cells, were investi...
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Shangye Chu, Xu Zeng, Hai Lin and Yuting Zhu
The performance of catalytic wet oxidation of excess activated sludge derived from pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over a Cu/?-Al2O3 catalyst was investigated. The experiments were performed with a stainless steel autoclave reactor by using the prepa...
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Xueyu Wei, Saraschandra Naraginti, Pengli Chen, Jiyuan Li, Xiaofan Yang and Buwei Li
Antibiotic pollution beyond the safety limits poses a significant threat to the environmental sustainability and human health which necessitates the development of efficient methods for reducing antibiotics in pharmaceutical wastewater. Photocatalysis is...
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Tibor József, Szonja Réka Kiss, Ferenc Muzslay, Orsolya Máté, Gábor P. Stromájer and Tímea Stromájer-Rácz
Active substances detected in surface water in Hungary today include pain and anti-inflammatory agents and antiepileptics, as wastewater treatment mechanisms cannot remove these micropollutants. The aim of our research is to detect residues of four pain-...
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J. W. Goh, Y. Xiong, W. Wu, Z. Huang, S. L. Ong and J. Y. Hu
TiO2 has been hampered by drawbacks such as rapid photoelectron and hole recombination and a wide energy band gap of 3.2 eV. In this study, MIL-101(Cr)@TiO2 was synthesised without any mineraliser (HF) as part of material modification approach to overcom...
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Donia Friedmann
The presence of persistent, difficult to degrade pharmaceutical compounds in wastewaters is a significant environmental concern. While heterogeneous photocatalysis can degrade a range of pharmaceutical compounds, as a technology, it is yet to be applied....
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Fatma Mansouri, Khawla Chouchene, Nicolas Roche and Mohamed Ksibi
Pharmaceutical products have become a necessary part of life. Several studies have demonstrated that indirect exposure of humans to pharmaceuticals through the water could cause negative effects. Raw sewage and wastewater effluents are the major sources ...
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Kangquan Qi, Mei Chen, Ruobin Dai, Qiang Li, Miaoju Lai and Zhiwei Wang
The removal of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) from water and wastewater is of great significance for eco-system safety. In this study, an electrochemical ceramic membrane bioreactor (ECMBR) was developed for removing seven groups (24 k...
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