Worldwide cases of water pollution by emerging contaminants: a review

N Morin-Crini, E Lichtfouse, G Liu, V Balaram… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Water contamination by emerging contaminants is increasing in the context of rising
urbanization, industrialization, and agriculture production. Emerging contaminants refers to …

Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review

N Morin-Crini, E Lichtfouse, M Fourmentin… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
The rise of emerging contaminants in waters challenges the scientific community and water
treatment stakeholders to design remediation techniques that are simple, practical …

Insights into biodegradation of antibiotics during the biofilm-based wastewater treatment processes

N Wang, L Peng, Y Gu, C Liang, RWM Pott… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The widespread consumption of antibiotics has raised public concerns due to the potential
hazards of antibiotic residues to the environment. Compared to conventional activated …

A review on occurrences, eco-toxic effects, and remediation of emerging contaminants from wastewater: special emphasis on biological treatment based hybrid …

D Saidulu, B Gupta, AK Gupta, PS Ghosal - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ubiquitous presence of emerging contaminants (ECs), such as pharmaceutically active
compounds, personal care products, pesticides, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, etc., in the …

Pharmaceutically active compounds in aqueous environment: A status, toxicity and insights of remediation

A Majumder, B Gupta, AK Gupta - Environmental research, 2019 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) have pernicious effects on all kinds of life
forms because of their toxicological effects and are found profoundly in various wastewater …

A systematic review of moving bed biofilm reactor, membrane bioreactor, and moving bed membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment: Comparison of research …

D Saidulu, A Majumder, AK Gupta - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The various detrimental effects of wastewater generated from different anthropogenic
activities are among the biggest challenges to sustainable development. Among various …

Removal of bisphenol A from wastewater by physical, chemical and biological remediation techniques. A review

CB Godiya, BJ Park - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2022 - Springer
Bisphenol A is a well-known endocrine-disrupting compound that is commonly detected in
industrial effluents and wastewater treatment plants. It is extensively used in the production …

Carbamazepine as a possible anthropogenic marker in water: occurrences, toxicological effects, regulations and removal by wastewater treatment technologies

FI Hai, S Yang, MB Asif, V Sencadas, S Shawkat… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Carbamazepine (CBZ), a pharmaceutical compound, has been proposed as an
anthropogenic marker to assess water quality due to its persistence in conventional …

A review of ammonia removal using a biofilm-based reactor and its challenges

M Zulkifli, HA Hasan, SRS Abdullah… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extensive growth of industries leads to uncontrolled ammonia releases to environment. This
can result in significant degradation of the aquatic ecology as well as significant health …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced biological activated carbon filter for removing pharmaceutically active compounds from treated wastewater

L Sbardella, J Comas, A Fenu… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Through their release of effluents, conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)
represent a major pollution point sources for pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in …