Overview
- Reviews the latest solutions for removing PhACs from contaminated water
- Collates the main technologies used in water treatment
- Compares the performance of the treatment technologies discussed
Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (HEC, volume 108)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Keywords
- PhACs
- Enzymes
- Membrane bioreactors
- Low cost adsorbents
- Sonochemical advanced oxidation processes
- Environmental risk assessment
- Water reuse
- Hospital wastewater
- Industrial wastewater
- Microalgae
- Moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBR)
- Electrochemical processes
- water quality and water pollution
- water quality and water pollution
About this book
This book reviews water treatment technologies for the removal of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs). It provides the reader with an overview of state-of-the-art techniques and recent efforts to develop more sustainable approaches. After nearly two decades of research into the presence and impact of PhACs in the environment, they remain one of the hottest topics in the fields of environmental chemistry, toxicology and engineering. Accordingly, intensive research efforts are currently being devoted to water treatment technologies that can reduce the presence of these emerging contaminants in water bodies.
This book examines various types of contaminated water from industry, hospitals and urban wastewater. It provides the reader with a range of potential solutions for water treatment and reuse, and addresses the advancement of analytical tools for evaluating the performance and efficiency of treatment technologies.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paqui Blánquez Cano (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). A Chemical Engineer who completed her PhD in 2005, she is currently the assistant director of teaching action at the Engineering School (UAB). She conducts her research as part of the “Biodegradation of Industrial Contaminants and Waste Valorisation” Group, whose goal is to develop processes for the biodegradation of industrial pollutants in effluents as well as in soils. She has published 35 papers in indexed journals and participated in 14 competitive projects.
Montserrat Sarrà is an Associate Professor at the Engineering School, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where she also completed her PhD in Biotechnology (1994). She is a former coordinator of the PhD Program in Environmental Science and Technology (UAB) (2006-2018) and the current coordinator of the Degree Program in Chemical Engineering. Her research interests focus on the bioremediation of xenobiotic compounds and the development of corresponding treatment processes. She conducts her research at the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering. She has participated in 16 competitive projects and published more than 60 papers in international journals.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Removal and Degradation of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds in Wastewater Treatment
Editors: Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz, Paqui Blánquez Cano, Montserrat Sarrà Adroguer
Series Title: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77509-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77508-7Published: 01 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77511-7Published: 02 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77509-4Published: 30 June 2021
Series ISSN: 1867-979X
Series E-ISSN: 1616-864X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 383
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Chemistry, Biotechnology, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Analytical Chemistry