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Cosmetic Nanomaterials in Wastewater: Titanium Dioxide and Fullerenes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016-01)
The rapid growth in the cosmetic industry across the world is mainly due to the application of nanoingredients in cosmetics to enhance their properties and invention of new nanomolecules. Also, the weaker regulations on ...
Chapter 5 - Transport, fate, and bioavailability of emerging pollutants in soil, sediment, and wastewater treatment plants: potential environmental impacts
(2022)
Emerging contaminants (ECs) are chemicals of natural or synthetic origin that have been recently discovered and are not commonly monitored. These ECs have potential to contaminate the environment and have adverse effects ...
A Mechanistic Model to Assess the Fate of Naphthalene and Benzo(a)pyrene in a Chilean WWTP
(MDPI, 2021)
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a family of organic compounds of widespread
presence in the environment. They are recalcitrant, ubiquitous, prone to bioaccumulation, and
potentially carcinogenic. Effluent ...
Application of Wastewater and Biosolids in Soil: Occurrence and Fate of Emerging Contaminants
(Springer, 2016-02)
Wastewater (WW) for irrigation and application of biosolids in soil is becoming important as it is going to become very common in the near future. By 2050, the world is going to have four billion people living in water-scarce ...
Occurrence and potential risk of triclosan in freshwaters of Sao Paulo, Brazil-the need for regulatory actions
(Springer HeidelbergHeidelbergAlemanha, 2014)
Environmental photochemical fate and UVC degradation of sodium levothyroxine in aqueous medium
(2018-01-01)
The synthetic hormone sodium levothyroxine (LTX) is one of the most prescribed drugs in the world and the most effective in hypothyroidism treatment. The presence of LTX in the environment has become a matter of major ...
SARS-CoV-2 from faeces to wastewater treatment: What do we know? A review
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been found in the faeces of infected patients in numerous studies. Stool may remain positive for SARS-CoV-2, even when the respiratory tract becomes negative, and the interaction ...
Impact of Urea and Ammoniacal Nitrogen Wastewaters on Soil: Field Study in a Fertilizer Industry (Bahía Blanca, Argentina)
(Springer, 2021-09)
Nitrogen compounds in industrial effluents are considered a serious threat to the environment. The aim of this work is to identify the effect produced by nitrogen-rich wastewater on alkaline soils from industrial land. Two ...