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Pharmaceuticals in STP effluents and their solar photodegradation in aquatic environment.
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For six selected pharmaceuticals present in the STP effluents, the persistence towards abiotic photodegradation was evaluated submitting them to solar experiments at 40 degrees N latitude during spring and summer, based on experimentally measured quantum yields for the direct photolysis in bi-distilled water, half-life times at varying seasons and latitude were predicted for each substance.About:
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Ecotoxicology of human pharmaceuticals.
TL;DR: It is shown that only very little is known about long-term effects of pharmaceuticals to aquatic organisms, in particular with respect to biological targets, and targeted ecotoxicological studies are needed focusing on subtle environmental effects.
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Combination of Advanced Oxidation Processes and biological treatments for wastewater decontamination—A review
TL;DR: 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.
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A review on emerging contaminants in wastewaters and the environment: current knowledge, understudied areas and recommendations for future monitoring.
TL;DR: Understudied areas of emerging contaminant (EC) research in wastewaters and the environment are identified, and direction for future monitoring is recommended, and the fate and impact of ECs in all exposed environmental compartments are studied.
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Occurrence of pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater: Removal, mass load and environmental risk after a secondary treatment—A review
TL;DR: This analysis shows that the highest amounts discharged through secondary effluent pertain to one antihypertensive, and several beta-blockers and analgesics/anti-inflammatories, while the highest risk is posed by antibiotics and several psychiatric drugs and analgesic/ anti- inflammatories.
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Removal of residual pharmaceuticals from aqueous systems by advanced oxidation processes.
TL;DR: The effectiveness of various AOPs for pharmaceutical removal from aqueous systems is assessed, including water and wastewater treatment, air pollution abatement and soil remediation.
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Occurrence of drugs in German sewage treatment plants and rivers
TL;DR: In this article, the occurrence of 32 drug residues belonging to different medicinal classes like antiphlogistics, lipid regulators, psychiatric drugs, antiepileptic drugs, betablockers and β 2 -sympathomimetics as well as five metabolites has been investigated in German municipal sewage treatment plant (STP) discharges, river and stream waters.
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Occurrence of antibiotics in the aquatic environment.
TL;DR: From the large number of ground water samples that were taken from agricultural areas in Germany, no contamination by antibiotics was detected except for two sites, which indicates that intake from veterinary applications to the aquatic environment is of minor importance.
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Photochemistry of nitrite and nitrate in aqueous solution: a review
John Mack,James R. Bolton +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the experimental work on NO2− and NO3− photolysis in the context of recent advances in the understanding of the chemistry of the peroxynitrite anion (ONOO−) in biological experiments is presented in this article.
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Pharmaceuticals in groundwaters analytical methods and results of a monitoring program in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
TL;DR: Analytical methods for the trace-level determination of 60 pharmaceuticals in aqueous samples are presented and it was found that several of the compounds under investigation could be detected in groundwaters and their occurrence could be traced back to an impact of municipal or industrial waste water.
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The fate of pharmaceutical chemicals in the aquatic environment
TL;DR: This study outlines some of the problems encountered in assessing the risk from pharmaceutical chemicals which might enter the water cycle from domestic and industrial sources.