A critical review on the pathways of carbamazepine transformation products in oxidative wastewater treatment processes

J Trognon, C Albasi, JM Choubert - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbamazepine (CBZ) is an anticonvulsant drug, released in domestic and hospital
wastewater, and one of the drugs most commonly detected in surface water. Conventional …

Pharmaceutical pollution of hospital effluents and municipal wastewaters of Eastern Canada

MA Vaudreuil, SV Duy, G Munoz, S Sauvé - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantification of drugs residues in wastewaters of different sources could help better
understand contamination pathways, eventually leading to effluent regulation. However …

[HTML][HTML] Photo-Fenton and Electro-Fenton performance for the removal of pharmaceutical compounds in real urban wastewater

EM Jiménez-Bambague, CA Madera-Parra… - Electrochimica …, 2023 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of Photo-Fenton (PF) and
Electro-Fenton (EF) processes and find the best option for the removal of pharmaceutical …

[HTML][HTML] Occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern in the Eerste River, South Africa: Towards the optimisation of an urban water profiling approach for public …

E Archer, E Holton, J Fidal, B Kasprzyk-Hordern… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The study evaluated the presence and fate of various contaminants of emerging concern
(CECs) from a South African wastewater treatment works (WWTW) and surface waters …

Emerging pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals in Nakdong River, Korea: Identification, quantitative monitoring, and prioritization

N Park, J Jeon - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The extensive development and use of new anthropogenic chemicals have inevitably led to
their presence in aquatic environments. Surface waters affected by sewage effluents have …

Oxidized pyrite as an efficient Fenton reagent to generate active species for the degradation of carbamazepine in a wide pH range

J Zhai, X Wang, J Yan, C Gong, W Zhu, Y Luo… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Few studies have reported the catalytic activity of oxidized pyrite. In the paper, oxidized
pyrite was first explored as a Fenton reagent to generate active species to degrade …

Occurrence of antibiotics in influent and effluent from 3 major wastewater‐treatment plants in Finland

E Kortesmäki, JR Östman… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wastewater‐treatment plants (WWTPs) are regarded as one of the main sources of
antibiotics in the environment. In the present study, the concentrations of multiple antibiotics …

Tracking down pharmaceutical pollution in surface waters of the St. Lawrence River and its major tributaries

MA Vaudreuil, G Munoz, SV Duy, S Sauvé - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
A reconnaissance survey was undertaken to evaluate the occurrence and risks of 27
pharmaceuticals and metabolites in the St. Lawrence watershed. Surface water samples …

[HTML][HTML] Sale-based estimation of pharmaceutical concentrations and associated environmental risk in the Japanese wastewater system

K He, AG Borthwick, Y Lin, Y Li, J Fu, Y Wong… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on sales and emission of selected pharmaceuticals were used to
predict their concentrations in Japanese wastewater influent through a> 300 of …

Effect of concentration and hydraulic reaction time on the removal of pharmaceutical compounds in a membrane bioreactor inoculated with activated sludge

AB Rios‐Miguel, MSM Jetten… - Microbial …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pharmaceuticals are often not fully removed in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and
are thus being detected at trace levels in water bodies all over the world posing a risk to …