Nowadays there is a continuously increasing worldwide concern for development of
alternative water reuse technologies, mainly focused on agriculture and industry. In this …

In recent years, there has been a tremendous amount of research and development in the
area of photocatalysis (heterogeneous and homogeneous), a process included in a special …

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are critical for maintaining sustainable development
in modern societies, wherein microbial populations residing in activated sludge (AS) are …

Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have been widely used in water and wastewater
treatment for the removal of organic and inorganic contaminants as well as to improve …

Water constitutes a key resource for life on Earth; as a consequence, development of
civilizations throughout history has been directly related to the availability of sufficient …

In this work, a library of new aniline and pyridyl functionalized carbamoylcarboxylic acids
were synthesized, physicochemically analyzed and evaluated as ligands for the …

Water taken from the outlet of a wastewater treatment plant from the South East of Spain has
been treated by means of TiO2-based solar photocatalysis. Preliminary analysis showed the …

Due to the merits of being time-saving, cost effective and simple operation, the luminescent
bacteria toxicity assay (LBTA) has been widely used for environmental pollution monitoring …

Hospital wastewaters (HWW) contain a complex mixture of pharmaceutical compounds that
cannot be removed by conventional treatment processes. This study reports on the …

A solar photo-Fenton process combined with a biological nitrification and denitrification
system is proposed for the decontamination of a landfill leachate in a pilot plant using …