Water contamination by endocrine disruptors: Impacts, microbiological aspects and trends for environmental protection

CLS Vilela, JP Bassin, RS Peixoto - Environmental pollution, 2018 - Elsevier
Hormone active agents constitute a dangerous class of pollutants. Among them, those
agents that mimic the action of estrogens on target cells and are part of the group of …

A critical and comprehensive review of the current status of 17β-estradiol hormone remediation through adsorption technology

J Georgin, DSP Franco, MS Manzar, L Meili… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Even at low concentrations, steroid hormones pose a significant threat to ecosystem health
and are classified as micropollutants. Among these, 17β-estradiol (molecular formula …

[HTML][HTML] Steroid hormones in wastewater: Sources, treatments, environmental risks, and regulations

B Almazrouei, D Islayem, F Alskafi, MK Catacutan… - Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Steroid hormones are micropollutants that contaminate the water worldwide and exhibit a
significant threat to human health and the environment even at low concentrations. Steroid …

Occurrence and removal of poly/perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants

S Barisci, R Suri - Water Science and Technology, 2021 - iwaponline.com
The presence of poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has caused serious problems
for drinking water supplies especially at intake locations close to PFAS manufacturing …

Application of Box-Behnken design with response surface methodology for modeling and optimizing ultrasonic oxidation of arsenite with H2O2

P Qiu, M Cui, K Kang, B Park, Y Son, E Khim… - Open …, 2014 - degruyter.com
Abstract A combined ultrasound (US)/H2O2 process was used to oxidize arsenite to
arsenate, yielding a synergistic effect value of 1.26. This showed that the combined process …

Merging microfluidics and sonochemistry: towards greener and more efficient micro-sono-reactors

DF Rivas, P Cintas, HJGE Gardeniers - Chemical communications, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics enable the manipulation of chemical reactions using very small amounts of
fluid, in channels with dimensions of tens to hundreds of micrometers; so-called …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasonic-assisted ozone degradation of organic pollutants in industrial sulfuric acid

T Wang, T Le, J Hu, AV Ravindra, H Xv, L Zhang… - Ultrasonics …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a combination of ozone (O 3) and ultrasound (US) has been firstly used to
decolorize black concentrated sulfuric acid with high organic content. The effect of different …

A systematic study of enhanced ozone mass transfer for ultrasonic-assisted PTFE hollow fiber membrane aeration process

B Wang, X Xiong, Y Shui, Z Huang, K Tian - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
The ozone mass transfer efficiency based on deionized water of both the PTFE hollow fiber
membrane aeration and ultrasonic-assisted PTFE hollow fiber membrane aeration …

Sonochemical techniques to degrade pharmaceutical organic pollutants

N Tran, P Drogui, SK Brar - Environmental chemistry letters, 2015 - Springer
Pharmaceuticals are one of the chemical groups largely used in health care, diagnosis aids,
cure, treatment, and prevention of disease. Increasing production and use of pharmaceutical …

Kinetic model for sonolytic degradation of non-volatile surfactants: Perfluoroalkyl substances

T Shende, G Andaluri, RPS Suri - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Sonolytic degradation kinetics of non-volatile surfactant perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and
perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) were investigated over a range of concentration …