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Francesco De Mastro, Gennaro Brunetti, Andreina Traversa, Claudio Cacace and Claudio Cocozza
Pharmaceuticals (PhACs) are chemical substances that, after their use, can reach wastewater treatment plants, but the resulting treated wastewater (TWW) can still contain these contaminants. If TWWs are used for irrigation, PhACs can contaminate crops an...
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Santiago Martín-Rilo, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Carla Escapa and Marta Otero
Benzotriazole is used as corrosion inhibitor in many industrial sectors, such as the dairy industry. Due to its widespread use in various applications and everyday consumer products, this chemical easily reaches the aquatic environment, where it may have...
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Santiago Martín-Rilo, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Carla Escapa and Marta Otero
Benzotriazole is used as corrosion inhibitor in many industrial sectors, such as the dairy industry. Due to its widespread use in various applications and everyday consumer products, this chemical easily reaches the aquatic environment, where it may have...
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Juliana Botelho Moreira, Thaisa Duarte Santos, Munise Zaparoli, Ana Claudia Araujo de Almeida, Jorge Alberto Vieira Costa and Michele Greque de Morais
The presence of emerging contaminants in water resources has been a global concern due to their environmental impact and effects on human and animal health. These compounds include pharmaceuticals and personal care products, pesticides, fire retardants, ...
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Marc-André Lecours, Emmanuel Eysseric, Viviane Yargeau, Jean Lessard, Gessie M. Brisard and Pedro A. Segura
The study of the fate of emerging organic contaminants (EOCs), especially the identification of transformation products, after water treatment or in the aquatic environment, is a topic of growing interest. In recent years, electrochemistry coupled to mas...
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Clara Melguizo, Belén Patiño, Antonio J. Ramos, Covadonga Vázquez and Jéssica Gil-Serna
Aspergillus flavus is a xerophilic fungus whose geographical distribution is expected to change due to the current climate change scenario. Grapes are one of the most important crops worldwide, and it is essential to evaluate the risk posed by their cont...
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Daniela Guerrero-Gualan, Eduardo Valdez-Castillo, Tania Crisanto-Perrazo and Theofilos Toulkeridis
Hormones are a type of emerging contaminant that reach the aquatic environment through wastewater effluents and which wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) cannot eliminate. The objective of this article was to determine the best hormone abatement technique...
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Linlong Yu, Sobhan Iranmanesh, Ian Keir and Gopal Achari
Sulfolane is an emerging contaminant in the groundwater and soil nearby gas plants, which has attracted much attention from many researchers and regulatory agencies in the past ten years. In this paper, a field pilot-scale ultraviolet (UV)/hydrogen perox...
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Brandon M. Owen and Neha Sunger
In this study, we conducted a worst-case risk assessment for children?s health from ingestion exposure to water sources in two densely populated counties of the Piedmont province of New Jersey?Hunterdon and Mercer counties. Carcinogenic and non-carcinoge...
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Brandon M. Owen and Neha Sunger
In this study, we conducted a worst-case risk assessment for children?s health from ingestion exposure to water sources in two densely populated counties of the Piedmont province of New Jersey?Hunterdon and Mercer counties. Carcinogenic and non-carcinoge...
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Alejandro Rodriguez-Sanchez, Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez, Maria Victoria Martinez-Toledo, Maria Jesus Garcia-Ruiz, Francisco Osorio and Jesus Gonzalez-Lopez
Nitrogen is a main contaminant of wastewater worldwide. Novel processes for nitrogen removal have been developed over the last several decades. One of these is the partial nitritation process. This process includes the oxidation of ammonium to nitrite wi...
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Patrizia Iannece, Oriana Motta, Rossella Tedesco, Maurizio Carotenuto and Antonio Proto
Perchlorate is regarded as an emerging persistent inorganic contaminant. It is widely known that perchlorate is an endocrine disruptor as it competitively inhibits iodide transport in the thyroid gland. As drinking water is the major source of human expo...
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Yang Li, Yinghui Meng, Liwen Qin, Minghui Shen, Tongtong Qin, Xudong Chen, Beibei Chai, Yue Liu, Yanyan Dou and Xuejun Duan
As an emerging contaminant, the presence of microplastics is widespread in the environment. However, current research regarding the removal of microplastics by drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) remains insufficient. This study aims to investigate m...
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Bruno Salarini Peixoto, Larissa Silva de Oliveira Mota, Pamella Christina Ortega de Oliveira, Márcia Cristina da Cunha Veloso, Gilberto Alves Romeiro and Marcela Cristina de Moraes
The presence of emerging contaminants in water can harm both the environment and human health. Traditional water and wastewater treatment cannot eliminate them, so different alternatives for their removal are being studied. The use of activated carbon as...
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Xuefeng Qiu, Jiandong Wang, Haitao Wang, Chuanjuan Wang, Yuechao Sun and Guangyong Li
As an emerging contaminant, the clogging substances of emitters in biogas slurry drip irrigation systems affect the efficient return and utilization of biogas slurry to the field to a great extent. This can be prevented using acid and chlorination as eng...
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Aracely Zúñiga-Serrano, Hugo B. Barrios-García, Robin C. Anderson, Michael E. Hume, Miguel Ruiz-Albarrán, Yuridia Bautista-Martínez, Nadia A. Sánchez-Guerra, José Vázquez-Villanueva, Fidel Infante-Rodríguez and Jaime Salinas-Chavira
Plant extracts have been used over time in traditional medicine, mainly for their antimicrobial activity as well as for their medicinal effects. Plant-derived products contain secondary metabolites that prevent pathogenic microbial growth similar to conv...
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Cornelius Chris Reynders,Harmony Musiyarira,Prvoslav Marjanovic
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In a semi-arid water scarce country like South Africa, the efficient use of limited water resources and measures to extend the service value of these resources is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable development. The conventional supply-sided managem...
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