Occurrence and spatial distribution of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the aquatic environment, their characteristics, and adopted legislations

HB Hawash, AA Moneer, AA Galhoum… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) residues are known to occur widely in
the aquatic environments of industrialized and developing countries. Considerable progress …

A review of diclofenac occurrences, toxicology, and potential adsorption of clay-based materials with surfactant modifier

MS Shamsudin, SF Azha, S Ismail - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Diclofenac (DCF) is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has become a phenomenon
and a prominent pollutant in municipal and industrial waste. Human health and the …

Pharmaceutical compounds in anaerobic digestion: A review on the removals and effect to the process performance

NAZ Azizan, A Yuzir, N Abdullah - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion has been studied as a potential enhancement to the existing
conventional treatment processes in removing pharmaceutical compounds from wastewater …

A comprehensive review for removal of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs attained from wastewater observations using carbon-based anodic oxidation process

ZH Mussa, FF Al-Qaim, AH Jawad, M Scholz… - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)(concentration< µg/L) are globally
acknowledged as hazardous emerging pollutants that pass via various routes in the …

The selectivity of electron acceptors for the removal of caffeine, gliclazide, and prazosin in an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor

NAZ Azizan, H Kamyab, A Yuzir, N Abdullah… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
This study attempts to investigate the relationship between the dominance of reducing
conditions and the biotransformation of pharmaceutical compounds, which has been …

The effects of caffeine, gliclazide, and prazosin on the performance and microbial diversity in an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor

NAZ Azizan, H Kamyab, A Yuzir, N Abdullah… - Biomass and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A laboratory-scale up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor was deployed in this
study to examine the relationship between pharmaceutical compounds and anaerobic …

[HTML][HTML] Occurrence of endocrine disruptors in Malaysia's water systems: A scoping review

NAK Hasni, ZF Anual, SA Rashid, SSA Thahir… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contamination of water systems with endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is becoming a
major public health concern due to their toxicity and ubiquity. The intrusion of EDCs into …

Removal of caffeine from aqueous solution by indirect electrochemical oxidation using a graphite-PVC composite electrode: A role of hypochlorite ion as an oxidising …

FF Al-Qaim, ZH Mussa, MR Othman… - Journal of hazardous …, 2015 - Elsevier
The electrochemical oxidation of caffeine, a widely over-the-counter stimulant drug, has
been investigated in effluent wastewater and deionized water (DIW) using graphite-poly …

Pseudo first order kinetics and proposed transformation products pathway for the degradation of diclofenac using graphite–PVC composite as anode.

ZH Mussa, FF Al-Qaim, MR Othman… - Journal of the Taiwan …, 2017 - Elsevier
The electrochemical degradation kinetics of diclofenac (DCF) using graphite–PVC
composite as anode was assessed in pure water and effluent wastewater. Effects of initial …

Transportation of different therapeutic classes of pharmaceuticals to the surface water, sewage treatment plant, and hospital samples, Malaysia

FF Al-Qaim, ZH Mussa, A Yuzir, NA Tahrim, N Hashim… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
All pharmaceuticals are separated chromatographically using the liquid chromatography-
time of flight/mass spectrometry (LC-ToF/MS) on a 5 µm, 2.1 mm× 250 mm, C18 column at …