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Combination of Advanced Oxidation Processes and biological treatments for wastewater decontamination—A review
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The main conclusions arrived at from the overall assessment of the literature are that more work needs to be done on degradation kinetics and reactor modeling of the combined process, and also dynamics of the initial attack on primary contaminants and intermediate species generation.About:
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Advanced oxidation of the antibiotic sulfapyridine by UV/H2O2: Characterization of its transformation products and ecotoxicological implications
TL;DR: High resolution mass spectrometry analyses by means of an ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography-linear ion trap high resolution Orbitrap instrument were carried out in order to elucidate the different transformation products (TPs) generated.
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Recent advances in TiO2-based materials for photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics in aqueous systems
TL;DR: A critical review of the main modern wastewater treatment methods of antibiotics removal is presented; their advantages and disadvantages are shown as mentioned in this paper, and the prospects and advantages of the photocatalytic method as the most efficient and economical useful are demonstrated.
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Solar photocatalytic oxidation of recalcitrant natural metabolic by-products of amoxicillin biodegradation.
João Pereira,Ana C. Reis,Vera Homem,José Silva,Arminda Alves,Maria T. Borges,Rui A.R. Boaventura,Vítor J.P. Vilar,Olga C. Nunes +8 more
TL;DR: This work assessed the feasibility of using a multistage treatment system for amoxicillin (AMX) spiked solutions combining a biological treatment process using an enriched culture to metabolize AMX and a solar photocatalytic system to achieve the removal of the metabolized transformation products (TPs) identified via LC-MS.
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Recent advances in clean-up strategies of waters polluted with sulfonamide antibiotics: a review of sorbents and related properties
TL;DR: Several strategies are available to reduce or eliminate recalcitrant sulfonamide antibiotics (sulfa drugs) from aqueous media as discussed by the authors, which are bioactive and ubiquitous pollutants of soils and watercourses.
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Ups and Downs of Water Photodecolorization by Nanocomposite Polymer Nanofibers.
TL;DR: A nanocomposite system based on TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) and PES nanofibers (NFs) that can adsorb and then photodecompose organic water pollutants such as dye molecules is introduced.
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