Athanasios S. Stasinakis

TL;DR: The main objective of the current study was to outline the current situation and discuss future perspectives for sludge treatment and disposal in EU countries, where sludge reuse in land and sludge incineration seem to be the main practices further adopted in EU-27 (all Member States up to 2020.

TL;DR: The developed extraction procedures resulted in good repeatability and reproducibility with relative standard deviations (RSDs) less than 13% for all the tested compounds for both types of samples, and the developed methods were successfully applied to the analysis of the target compounds in real samples.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for removing recalcitrant organic constituents from industrial and municipal wastewater is reviewed, while the advantages and drawbacks of these methods are highlighted, while some of the future challenges (decrease of operational cost, adoption of strategies for processes integration) are discussed.

TL;DR: Future efforts should be focused on better understanding of biotransformation processes occurred in aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors and result to PFCs formation and on the application of advanced treatment technologies under conditions commonly found in STPs.

TL;DR: Calculation of risk quotients showed the existence of possible threat due to the presence of certain EDCs in treated wastewater and sludge.