Perspective Chapter: Titanium Dioxide as a Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Waste Degradation Present in Water DOI Creative Commons
Carolina Solís Maldonado, Raúl Alejandro Luna Sánchez, A. Salas

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IntechOpen eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

This chapter presents a general overview of titanium dioxide (TiO2) as key component in photocatalytic degradation processes with emphasis on water quality improvement focusing the organic, toxic, persistent, and water-diluted pharmaceutical waste molecules. They are often linked to emerging contaminants such drug residues byproducts from significant anthropogenic activities. Throughout text, there is an physical, chemical, optical properties that make it essential applications. It also introduces fundamental concepts principles photocatalysis, facilitating analysis optimal experimental parameters conditions for efficient processes. Additionally, interaction between some pharmaceuticals examined understand potential side effects may impact its efficacy. Finally, discusses current challenges study part waste. Overcoming these would enhance performance while ensuring widespread implementation treatment systems.

Language: Английский

Advanced oxidation and biological integrated processes for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment: A review DOI Creative Commons
John Busayo Adeoye, Yie Hua Tan, Sie Yon Lau

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Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 353, P. 120170 - 120170

Published: Feb. 1, 2024

The stress of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) discharging to water bodies the environment due increased industrialization has reduced availability clean water. This poses a potential health hazard animals human life because contamination is great issue climate, plants, humans, aquatic habitats. Pharmaceutical compounds are quantified in concentrations ranging from ng/Lto μg/L environments worldwide. According (Alsubih et al., 2022), carbamazepine, sulfamethoxazole, Lutvastatin, ciprofloxacin, lorazepam were 616–906 ng/L, 16,532–21635 694–2068 734–1178 2742–3775 ng/L respectively. Protecting preserving our must be well-driven by all sectors sustain development. Various methods have been utilized eliminate emerging pollutants, such as adsorption biological advanced oxidation processes. These their benefits drawbacks removal pharmaceuticals. Successful wastewater treatment can save bodies; integrating green initiatives into main purposes actor firms, combined with continually periodic awareness current implications environmental/water pollution, will play major role conservation. article reviews key publications on adsorption, biological, processes used remove environment. It also sheds light capability methods, efficacy concentration removal. A research gap identified for researchers explore order problem associated wastes. Therefore, future study should focus combining an excellent way products, even at low concentrations. Biological ideal circumstances microbial that enable simultaneous effects diverse efficiency.

Language: Английский

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Impact of environmental pollution from human activities on water, air quality and climate change DOI
Great Iruoghene Edo,

Lilian Oghenenyoreme Itoje-akpokiniovo,

Promise Obasohan

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Deleted Journal, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: June 1, 2024

Interactions between humans and the physical environment in which they live have been studied extensively reason being that human activities to a great extent exert an influence on (biotic abiotic). Pollution other hand is introducing harmful substances into are damaging living organisms. Pollutants can be gases, liquids or solids produced concentrations higher than usual diminish quality of environment. Human adverse effects by polluting air we breathe, water drink even cause climatic changes. In terms provision manifold services, technology societal modernization, industrial revolution recorded outstanding success, it however, was beginning mass production pollutants emitted caused health our era, industrialization urbanization evidently reaching unprecedented disturbing proportions globally with anthropogenic pollution one major public hazards, accounting for almost 9 million deaths annually. This research therefore aims investigate environmental from activities, particularly water, climate change provide comprehensive understanding interconnectedness their consequences. Furthermore, since emerges as global concern developing countries; this study thus also highlights significance efficient wastewater treatment crucial strategy sustainable development, exploring its potential contribution mitigation.

Language: Английский

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Biodegradation of pharmaceutical compounds in industrial wastewater using biological treatment: a comprehensive overview DOI

A. Moghaddam,

Danial Khayatan, Peyman Esmaeili Fard Barzegar

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International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 20(5), P. 5659 - 5696

Published: March 15, 2023

Language: Английский

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Recent Advances in Advanced Oxidation Processes for Degrading Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater—A Review DOI Open Access

Nur Nabaahah Roslan,

Harry Lik Hock Lau,

Nurul Amanina A. Suhaimi

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Catalysts, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 189 - 189

Published: March 10, 2024

A large variety of pharmaceutical compounds have recently been detected in wastewater and natural water systems. This review highlighted the significance removing compounds, which are considered indispensable emerging contaminants, from Various advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), including UV-H2O2, Fenton photo-Fenton, ozone-based processes, photocatalysis, physical such as sonolysis, microwave, electron beam irradiation, regarded most viable methods to eliminate different categories discussed. All these AOPs exhibit great promising techniques, catalytic degradation process advantages, disadvantages each technique were deliberated. Heterogeneous photocatalysis employing metal oxides, particularly anatase TiO2 nanoparticles catalysts activated by UV light was reviewed terms electron–hole separation, migration charge carriers catalyst surfaces, redox potential carriers. brief overview also emphasized that TiO2-based nanomaterials photocatalysts, a combination other enhanced photocatalytic efficiency. Finally, challenges applying environmental remediation treatments degrade mass spectroscopic analysis biological activity test by-products contaminants resulting summarized.

Language: Английский

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Harnessing the power of bacterial laccases for xenobiotic degradation in water: A 10-year overview DOI
Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Muhammad Wajid Ullah, Junaid Ali Shah

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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 918, P. 170498 - 170498

Published: Feb. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Advancements in molecular simulation for understanding pharmaceutical pollutant Adsorption: A State-of-the-Art review DOI Creative Commons

Iman Salahshoori,

Shahla Mahdavi,

Zahra Moradi

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Journal of Molecular Liquids, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 410, P. 125513 - 125513

Published: July 14, 2024

The contamination of natural water resources by pharmaceutical pollutants has become a significant environmental concern. Traditional experimental approaches for understanding the adsorption behavior these contaminants on different surfaces are often time-consuming and resource-intensive. In response, this review article explores powerful combination in silico techniques, including molecular dynamics (MD), Monte Carlo simulations (MC), quantum mechanics (QM), as comprehensive toolset to obtain broad perspectives into pollutants. By bridging multiple scales, from molecular-level interactions macroscopic impact, computational methods offer holistic processes involved. We provide an overview their ecological effects, emphasizing need efficient sustainable solutions. Subsequently, we delve theoretical foundations MD, MC, QM, highlighting respective strengths simulating pollutant adsorption. Moreover, synergistic potential combining methodologies is also discussed more characterization processes. Recent case studies illustrate successful application techniques predicting behaviors various conditions. Finally, implications discussed, along with how modelling can guide solutions mitigating impact.

Language: Английский

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Water Quality, Air Pollution, and Climate Change: Investigating the Environmental Impacts of Industrialization and Urbanization DOI Creative Commons
Vivek Saxena

Water Air & Soil Pollution, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 236(2)

Published: Jan. 3, 2025

Language: Английский

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Mixed Contaminants: Occurrence, Interactions, Toxicity, Detection, and Remediation DOI Creative Commons
Anirban Goutam Mukherjee, Uddesh Ramesh Wanjari, Mohamed Ahmed Eladl

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Molecules, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 27(8), P. 2577 - 2577

Published: April 16, 2022

The ever-increasing rate of pollution has attracted considerable interest in research. Several anthropogenic activities have diminished soil, air, and water quality led to complex chemical pollutants. This review aims provide a clear idea about the latest most prevalent pollutants such as heavy metals, PAHs, pesticides, hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals—their occurrence various mixtures how several environmental factors influence their interaction. mechanism adopted by these contaminants form leading rise new class contaminants, thus resulting severe threats human health environment, also been exhibited. Additionally, this provides an in-depth vivo, vitro, trending biomarkers used for risk assessment identifies mixed even at very minute concentrations. Much importance given remediation technologies understand our current position handling can be improved. paper create awareness among readers ubiquitous simple ways tackle same.

Language: Английский

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Promising bioprocesses for the efficient removal of antibiotics and antibiotic-resistance genes from urban and hospital wastewaters: Potentialities of aerobic granular systems DOI Creative Commons

Lizandra Perez-Bou,

Alejandro González‐Martínez, Jesús González

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Environmental Pollution, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 342, P. 123115 - 123115

Published: Dec. 10, 2023

The use, overuse, and improper use of antibiotics have resulted in higher levels antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs), which profoundly disturbed the equilibrium environment. Furthermore, once antibiotic agents are excreted urine feces, these substances often can reach wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), treatments been highlighted as main reason for stronger dissemination antibiotics, ARB, ARGs to receiving bodies. Hence, achieving better removal capacities WWTPs is proposed an adequate approach limit spread into In this review, we highlight hospital (WW) a critical hotspot resistance due its high level pathogens. monitoring composition structure bacterial communities related WW key factor controlling ARGs. addition, discuss advantages drawbacks current biological regarding phenomenon. Widely used conventional activated sludge technology has proved be ineffective mitigating ARB However, aerobic granular (AGS) promising technology-with broad adaptability excellent performance-that could successfully reduce generated effluents. We also outline operational parameters involved WWTPs. regard, operation under long hydraulic solid retention times allows independently employed. Finally, address knowledge adsorption degradation their importance removing Notably, AGS enhance complex microbial metabolism within biomass.

Language: Английский

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Contaminants of emerging concern in water and sediment of the Venice Lagoon, Italy DOI Creative Commons
Sarah Pizzini, Elisa Giubilato, Elisa Morabito

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Environmental Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 249, P. 118401 - 118401

Published: Feb. 7, 2024

This study investigates for the first time contamination of water and sediment Venice Lagoon by twenty Contaminants Emerging Concern (CECs): three hormones, six pharmaceutical compounds (diclofenac five antibiotics, which are macrolides), nine pesticides (methiocarb, oxadiazon, metaflumizone, triallate, neonicotinoids), one antioxidant (BHT), UV filter (EHMC). Water samples were collected in seven sites four seasons, with aim investigating occurrence, distribution, possible emission sources selected CECs studied transitional environment. The most frequently detected contaminants neonicotinoid insecticides (with a frequency quantification single ranging from 73% to 92%), EHMC (detected 77% samples), followed BHT (42%), diclofenac (39%), clarithromycin (35%). In highest frequencies those (54%), estrogens (ranging 35% 65%), azithromycin (46%). Although this baseline does not highlight seasonal or spatial trends, results suggested that two major could be tributary rivers its drainage basin treated wastewater, due limited removal rates some WWTPs. These preliminary call further investigations better map priority improve understanding environmental behavior, final drawing up site-specific Watch List support design more comprehensive monitoring plans future.

Language: Английский

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