Arminda Alves

TL;DR: This review article summarises major categories of organic microcontaminants that have been detected in wastewaters and studies their fate during the wastewater treatment process.

TL;DR: In this article, the applicability and advantages of chitosan and modified chitosa in the microencapsulation process are discussed, with special emphasis on relevant operational spray drying conditions, which affect the performance of the final product, namely the efficiency and yield of the micro-encapulation process, the particle properties, like size, moisture and stability, and the release time of active compounds.

TL;DR: It has been concluded that more information regarding UV-filter degradation studies both in water and sediments is necessary and environmental occurrences should be monitored more frequently and deeply.

TL;DR: This review, aims to provide the current state of the art in the occurrence and fate of UV-filters in wastewater treatment plants and how the technologies that are being used are successfully removing these compounds from both wastewater and sludge.

TL;DR: A new analytical methodology to determine 13 chlorophenols and phenol by SPME-GC-MS in landfill leachates is presented and Reproducibility, expressed by the coefficient of variation of repeated extractions at different concentration levels of the analytes, was on average inferior to 10%.