A review on hospital wastewater treatment: A special emphasis on occurrence and removal of pharmaceutically active compounds, resistant microorganisms, and …

A Majumder, AK Gupta, PS Ghosal, M Varma - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The hospital wastewater imposes a potent threat to the security of human health concerning
its high vulnerability towards the outbreak of several diseases. Furthermore, the outbreak of …

Occurrence and removal of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants

OFS Khasawneh, P Palaniandy - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical compounds, such as antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
(NSAIDs), anticonvulsants, β-blocker, etc. have emerged as new classes of water pollutants …

Recent trends in disposal and treatment technologies of emerging-pollutants-A critical review

NA Khan, SU Khan, S Ahmed, IH Farooqi… - TrAC Trends in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently pharmaceuticals are emerging as a major source of pollution for the environment. It
has been well observed that the effluent discharge from hospitals has an eminent quantity of …

Technology status and trends of industrial wastewater treatment: a patent analysis

G Mao, Y Han, X Liu, J Crittenden, N Huang… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Globally, 80% of wastewater, among which 28% came from industry, returned to the
ecosystem without treatment or reuse. The discharge of industrial wastewater poses public …

Adsorptive and photocatalytic degradation potential of porous polymeric materials for removal of pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and dyes-based emerging contaminants …

A Intisar, A Ramzan, S Hafeez, N Hussain, M Irfan… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Life on earth is dependent on clean water, which is crucial for survival. Water supplies are
getting contaminated due to the growing human population and its associated …

Pharmaceuticals as emerging contaminants and their removal from water. A review

J Rivera-Utrilla, M Sánchez-Polo, MÁ Ferro-García… - Chemosphere, 2013 - Elsevier
The main objective of this study was to conduct an exhaustive review of the literature on the
presence of pharmaceutical-derived compounds in water and on their removal. The most …

Seasonal occurrence, removal, mass loading and environmental risk assessment of 55 pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a municipal wastewater …

M Papageorgiou, C Kosma, D Lambropoulou - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
A comprehensive study, which contains the seasonal occurrence, removal, mass loading
and environmental risk assessment of 55 multi-class pharmaceuticals and personal care …

Biosensors for wastewater monitoring: A review

F Ejeian, P Etedali, HA Mansouri-Tehrani… - Biosensors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Water pollution and habitat degradation are the cause of increasing water scarcity and
decline in aquatic biodiversity. While the freshwater availability has been declining through …

Characterization of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in hospital effluent and waste water influent/effluent by direct-injection LC-MS-MS

TS Oliveira, M Murphy, N Mendola, V Wong… - Science of the total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Two USEPA Regional Laboratories developed direct-injection LC/MS/MS methods
to measure Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in water matrices …

Recent advances in nanomaterials based sustainable approaches for mitigation of emerging organic pollutants

M Bhattu, J Singh - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Emerging organic pollutants (EOPs) are a category of pollutants that are relatively new to the
environment and recently garnered a lot of attention. The majority of EOPs includes …