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Wastewater

About: Wastewater is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 92512 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1256590 citations. The topic is also known as: waste water.


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TL;DR: Twenty-one antibiotics were found in the sewage sludge from the two WWTPs at the concentrations up to 5800ng/g, with tetracycline, oxytetracy Cline, norfloxacin and ofloxacIn being the predominant antibiotics.

377 citations

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TL;DR: Mefenamic acid seems to present a risk for the aquatic environment, with a ratio PEC/PNEC higher than one, and Ibuprofen was well removed by one sewage treatment plant, showing a potential contamination of surface water.

376 citations

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TL;DR: A survey on the presence of pharmaceuticals in urban wastewater of a Spanish Mediterranean area (Castellon province) indicated that elimination of most of the selected compounds occurred during the treatment process of influent wastewater, although it was incomplete.

376 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of pH and coagulant dosage as well as the effects of contact time and a powdered activated carbon dosage on dye removal have been studied and a two-step Al(III) coagulation/activated carbon adsorption method was designed to investigate the removal of reactive dyes, C.I. Reactive Red 45 and C.

376 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the use of low-cost adsorbent has been investigated as a replacement for the current expensive methods of removing dyes from wastewater for fly ash generated in National Thermal Power plant.
Abstract: The use of low-cost adsorbent has been investigated as a replacement for the current expensive methods of removing dyes from wastewater. As such, fly ash generated in National Thermal Power plant w...

375 citations


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Performance
Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20247
20236,349
202213,022
20214,371
20204,662
20196,129