Míriam Cristina Santos Amaral

TL;DR: In this article, the occurrence of Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in water and wastewater worldwide as well as their fate, focusing on the removal by conventional WTPs and the risk imposed to human health associated to the presence of PhACs in raw and drinking water.

TL;DR: In this article, the rejection mechanisms and the interactions between PhACs and NOM or inorganic salts are well understood, and it is consensual that tighter NF membranes are more efficient than looser membranes, reaching >99% of removal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the application of membrane bioreactor (MBR) as secondary and nanofiltration (NF) as tertiary treatment for the reuse of dairy wastewater, focusing on determining the best NF operating conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of using microfiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis to recover sulfuric acid, separate noble metals, and produce high quality reuse water from a gold mining effluent, specifically from a pressure-oxidation process effluent.

TL;DR: The drinking water monitoring showed a decrease in the concentration of all detected pharmaceuticals, indicating some removal of these compounds by the water treatment processes, whereas the removal efficiency assessed shows a great variation among different compounds, DWTPs and over the year, ranging from an average of 32% ± 6% (Prednisone -DWTP3) to 100%‹±‹0% for some pharmaceuticals.