Disinfection by-products as environmental contaminants of emerging concern: a review on their occurrence, fate and removal in the urban water cycle

R Xiao, T Ou, S Ding, C Fang, Z Xu… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Disinfection by-products (DBPs), a kind of secondary pollutant derived from water
disinfection treatment, are frequently detected in the urban water cycle and reported to show …

A review on Trihalomethanes and Haloacetic acids in drinking water: Global status, health impact, insights of control and removal technologies

R Sinha, AK Gupta, PS Ghosal - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ever-growing water pollution evokes the inevitability of disinfection, especially by
chlorination from decades, although the emergence of many carcinogenic disinfection by …

Treating disinfection byproducts with UV or solar irradiation and in UV advanced oxidation processes: A review

X Lei, Y Lei, X Zhang, X Yang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
This review focuses on the degradation kinetics and mechanisms of disinfection byproducts
(DBPs) under UV and solar irradiation and in UV-based advanced oxidation processes …

Zerovalent Iron/Cu Combined Degradation of Halogenated Disinfection Byproducts and Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship Modeling

Y Liu, J Gao, Q Zhu, X Zhou, W Chu… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Previous studies have reported that zerovalent iron (ZVI) can reduce several aliphatic
groups of disinfection byproducts (DBPs)(eg, haloacetic acids and haloacetamides) …

Photodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) on suspended particles from the Yellow River under sunlight irradiation: QSAR model and mechanism analysis

J Xu, J Wei, X Wei, X Teng, Z Wang, R Qu - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as a class of hydrophobic organic pollutants, are widely
found in river sediments and suspended particles, and the environmental fate of different …

Unveil the quantum chemical descriptors determining direct photodegradation of antibiotics under simulated sunlight: Batch experiments and model development

Y Lyu, T Huang, W Liu, W Sun - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The massive use of antibiotics has led to their omnipresence in aquatic environments, and
the photodegradation was found to be the dominant transformation process for antibiotics in …

Photolysis mechanism of eleven insecticides under simulated sunlight irradiation: Kinetics, pathway and QSAR

J Wang, X Zhang, L Fan, L Su, Y Zhao - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Insecticides are widely used in crop protection against insects and frequently detected in
aquatic environment. Photolysis kinetics are directly related with exposure assessment and …

Application of quantitative structure–property relationship predictive models to water treatment: a critical review

D Awfa, M Ateia, D Mendoza, C Yoshimura - ACS ES&T Water, 2021 - ACS Publications
The large number of pollutants in water requires the application of various water treatment
techniques. However, it is time-consuming, costly, and laborious to experimentally …

Synergistic effects on the degradation of a mixture of pharmaceutical pollutants in aqueous solution, raw sewage, and hospital wastewater using UV light-assisted …

R Anjali, S Shanthakumar - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The widespread pharmaceutical pollutants enter the aquatic environment through
wastewater, and it poses a threat to aquatic organisms and human health. Advanced …

Impact of bromide ion on the formation and transformation of halonitromethanes from poly (diallyldimethylammonium chloride) during the UV/chlorine treatment

L Deng, T Huang, L Wen, J Hu, RP Singh… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The formation of halonitromethanes (HNMs) is one of the major concerns when considering
the application of UV/chlorine in the treatment of water containing bromide (Br-). The effects …