Occurrence and removal of organic micropollutants: An overview of the watch list of EU Decision 2015/495

MO Barbosa, NFF Moreira, AR Ribeiro, MFR Pereira… - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Although there are no legal discharge limits for micropollutants into the environment, some
regulations have been published in the last few years. Recently, a watch list of substances …

An overview on the advanced oxidation processes applied for the treatment of water pollutants defined in the recently launched Directive 2013/39/EU

AR Ribeiro, OC Nunes, MFR Pereira… - Environment international, 2015 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution is a recognized issue of major concern since a wide range of
contaminants has been found in aquatic environment at ng L− 1 to μg L− 1 levels. In the year …

Carbonaceous materials as effective adsorbents and catalysts for the removal of emerging contaminants from water

J Scaria, A Gopinath, N Ranjith, V Ravindran… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The elimination of emerging contaminants (ECs) from aquatic environment has become a
worldwide concern due to their widespread occurrence and consequent detrimental effects …

Enhancing Ibuprofen and 4-Isobutylacetophenone degradation: Exploiting the potential of Nb2O5 sol-gel catalysts in photocatalysis, catalytic ozonation, and …

MZ Fidelis, YB Favaro, ASGG dos Santos… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study describes the synthesis of Nb 2 O 5 by three sol-gel methods to be used as a
catalyst in photocatalysis, catalytic ozonation and the synergistic effects of the two …

Prospective of nanotechnology in degradation of waste water: A new challenges

BD Deshpande, PS Agrawal, MKN Yenkie… - Nano-Structures & Nano …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the current scenario, the conservation of environment is an urge. Among various
environmental hazards, the knocking area is waste water treatment. Scientists are constantly …

Current trends in the application of nanomaterials for the removal of emerging micropollutants and pathogens from water

P Kokkinos, D Mantzavinos, D Venieri - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Water resources contamination has a worldwide impact and is a cause of global concern.
The need for provision of clean water is becoming more and more demanding …

Photocatalytic-assisted ozone degradation of metolachlor aqueous solution

CA Orge, MFR Pereira, JL Faria - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic-assisted ozone degradation of metolachlor (MTLC) aqueous solutions was
investigated using neat TiO 2 (prepared by sol-gel method) and TiO 2/carbon composite …

Carbon nanofibers doped with nitrogen for the continuous catalytic ozonation of organic pollutants

J Restivo, E Garcia-Bordejé, JJM Órfão… - Chemical Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Catalytic ozonation using carbon materials, in particular nanocarbons, has been appointed
as an interesting alternative for the abatement of recalcitrant emerging organic pollutants …

Catalytic performance of heteroatom-modified carbon nanotubes in advanced oxidation processes

J Restivo, RP Rocha, AMT Silva, JJM Órfão… - Chinese Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were submitted to chemical and thermal treatments
in order to incorporate different heteroatoms on the surface. O-, S-and N-containing groups …

Nanostructured layers of mechanically processed multiwalled carbon nanotubes for catalytic ozonation of organic pollutants

J Restivo, CA Orge… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are known to have great potential to be used as
catalysts in the ozonation of organic pollutants in water. However, solutions are required …