[HTML][HTML] European scale assessment of the potential of ozonation and activated carbon treatment to reduce micropollutant emissions with wastewater

A Pistocchi, NA Alygizakis, W Brack, A Boxall… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Micropollutants (MPs) in wastewater pose a growing concern for their potential adverse
effects on the receiving aquatic environment, and some countries have started requiring that …

Worst-case ranking of organic chemicals detected in groundwaters and surface waters in England

D Spurgeon, H Wilkinson, W Civil, L Hutt… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Environment Agency has been using Gas Chromatography–Mass
Spectrometry (GC–MS) and Accurate-mass Quadrupole Time-of-Flight (Q-TOF)/Liquid …

Bacterial chemotaxis of herbicide atrazine provides an insight into the degradation mechanism through intermediates hydroxyatrazine, N–N-isopropylammelide, and …

P Satapute, S De Britto, S Hadimani… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent times, the herbicide atrazine (ATZ) has been commonly used before and after the
cultivation of crop plants to manage grassy weeds. Despite its effect, the toxic residues of …

Mechanistic modeling indicates rapid glyphosate dissipation and sorption‐driven persistence of its metabolite AMPA in soil

B Wimmer, A Langarica‐Fuentes, E Schwarz… - 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Residual concentrations of glyphosate and its main transformation product
aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) are often observed in soils. The factors controlling …

Legacy pollutants in fractured aquifers: Analytical approximations for back diffusion to predict atrazine concentrations under uncertainty

E Petrova, J Meierdierks, M Finkel… - Journal of Contaminant …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present novel analytical approximations for the estimation of travel distance and relative
height of solute concentration peaks within a single fracture system for pollutants that have …

Spatial control of microbial pesticide degradation in soil: A model-based scenario analysis

E Schwarz, S Khurana, A Chakrawal… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microbial pesticide degraders are heterogeneously distributed in soil. Their spatial
aggregation at the millimeter scale reduces the frequency of degrader–pesticide encounter …