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Performance study of a magnetic iron–copper bimetallic material for the removal of an environmental “cocktail” of diverse hazardous organic micropollutants from aqueous samples
Recalcitrant organic compounds are common in the environment and give rise to a serious threat to the ecosystem and human health. Single- or...
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Organohalogenated Micropollutants: Polybrominated Disphenyl Ether (PBDE) Contamination Gradient of the Seine River in France
The Spatio-temporal variability of the Seine River contamination by organic micropollutants such as Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) was...
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Verteilung von Nitrat und organischen Mikroschadstoffen in landwirtschaftlich genutzten Böden
Often, nitrate in groundwater is attributed to agricultural land use with high nitrate concentrations in the soil. Regulatory measures exclusively...
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Evaluation of the adsorption efficiency of carcinogenic PAHs on microplastic (polyester) fibers—preliminary results
Paper presents the results of investigations on sorption capacity of selected carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on microplastics...
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Fate of 15 wastewater originated organic micropollutants in a sand column
The present investigation was on the assessment of the fate of 15 organic micro-pollutants (OMPs) under abiotic (predominantly adsorption) and biotic...
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Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture
Effective management of water resources is crucial for global food security and sustainable development. In this Review, we explore the potential...
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Adsorption of stable and labile emerging pollutants on activated carbon: degradation and mass transfer kinetic study
The design of adsorption processes for pharmaceuticals removal depends not only on the adsorption equilibrium but also on the mass transfer and...
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Analysis of real pharmaceutical wastewater and proposed novel remediation methods
AbstractPharmaceutical wastewater treatment is a lately a transpiring realm in the industrial wastewater treatment segment. Untreated pharmaceutical...
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Multicriteria Comparison of Ozonation, Membrane Filtration, and Activated Carbon for the Treatment of Recalcitrant Organics in Industrial Effluent: A Conceptual Study
Urban wastewater and industrial effluents are treated by conventional technologies according to their biological or physicochemical properties. Yet...
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Factors and mechanisms regulating heavy metal phycoremediation in polluted water
Rapid advances to industrialization and population increases have put aquatic ecosystems at high risk of pollution from various industrial and...
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Hyporheic exchange in recirculating flumes under heterogeneous bacterial and morphological conditions
Hyporheic exchange (HE) contributes to the biogeochemical turnover of macro- and micro-pollutants in rivers. However, the spatiotemporal complexity...
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Early Warning Strategies and Practices Along the River Rhine
In 1986, the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) installed a Warning and Alarm Plan (WAP) in order to avert the dangers...
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Recent advances in the treatment of wastewater contaminated with pharmaceutical pollutants: a critical review
Over the last decade, the pharmaceutical industry has driven considerable development, raising the standard of living and health care in Morocco and...
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Occurrence of selected domestic and hospital emerging micropollutants on a rural surface water basin linked to a groundwater karst catchment
The occurrence of specific micropollutants (MPs), indicators of domestic and hospital wastewater, was investigated in a river connected to a karst...
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Characterization of activated carbons for water treatment using TGA-FTIR for analysis of oxygen-containing functional groups
Water treatment with activated carbon (AC) is an established method for the removal of organic micropollutants and natural organic matter. However,...
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Degradation of the micropollutant amoxicillin by photolysis and evaluation of the toxicity of byproducts generated in aquatic environments
Antibiotic micropollutant are present in the environmental and is necessary the development of effective treatment to eliminate this from the water....
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Geogenic and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Water Quality of Cauvery River
Human civilisation has evolved generally along the banks of rivers in most of the regions around the world. Over the years, the population living...
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Physicochemical analysis and detection of exceptionally high diclofenac concentration in the pharmaceutical wastewaters collected from the production units of national industrial zone, Rawat, Pakistan
The annual growth rate of pharmaceutical industry in Pakistan is 10% and is continuously expanding to fulfill the increasing demand of the rapidly...
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A critical review on emerging contaminants: origin, discernment, and remedies
Discharge of untreated water may cause serious health diseases. There have been studies on effluent concentration from wastewater treatment plants of...
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Forensic Fingerprinting of Biomarkers for the Geochemical Characterization of Oil Spills and Soil Contamination in the Coastal Area of Bizerte, Tunisia
This research deals with oil contamination of the surface sediments of the various sites in the southwest of the Mediterranean Sea distributed over...