Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) along with illicit drugs (IDs) are newly recognized classes of environmental pollutants and are receiving considerable attention because of their environmental impacts: frequent occurrence, persistence and risk to aquatic life and humans. However, relatively little information is often available with regard to their possible biotic and abiotic ...

Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have been globally detected in impacted natural waters. The detection of trace quantities of EDCs and PPCPs in the environment is of great concern since some of these compounds have known physiological responses at low concentrations. EDCs can have a wide range of polarities, acidic and basic moieties, ...

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) include over-the-counter prescription drugs, veterinary fragrances, cosmetics. PPCPs have been detected in aquatic environments at low concentrations are emerging as contaminants of concern. primarily released into via untreated sewage, wastewater treatment plants, landfill leachate can affect life through persistence, bioaccumulation, toxicity...

Synthetic sewage containing high concentrations of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs, mg/L level) was treated using an anoxic/aerobic (A/O) reactor coupled with a microbial fuel cell (MFC) at hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 8 h. A novel design of solid plain graphite plates (SPGRPs) was used for the high surface area biodegradation of the PPCP-containing sewage and for the gen...

In order to achieve sustainable development, environmental protection shall constitute an integral part of the development process and cannot be considered in isolation from it [1]. The environment, especially water ecosystem, is continuously loaded with foreign organic chemicals (xenobiotics) released by urban communities and industries. Water is not a com‐ mercial product like any other but, ...

The increasing consumption of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) by humankind has been causing an accumulation contaminants (commonly referred to as emerging concern), in effluents water resources. Ozonation can be used improve the removal these during treatment alleviate this burden. In work, degradation methyl (MP), propylparaben (PP), paracetamol (PCT), sulfamethoxazole (SMX),...

The present study focused on the occurrence, distribution and risk assessment of 32 pharmaceuticals personal care products (PPCPs) in water sediment, as well surrounding soil irrigation channels lake a Mediterranean coastal wetland, Albufera Natural Park (Valencia, Spain). Moreover, influent effluent ten wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) that treat from Valencia areas were also studied. BPA, ...

A suite of target endocrine disruptor compounds (EDCs) and pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) were evaluated for removal by several water treatment processes at bench-, pilot-, and fullscale. Over 60 different EDCs and PPCPs were chosen and simultaneously evaluated based on structure, occurrence, and potential health impacts. Treatment processes evaluated include physical (e.g.,...

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are generally neither totally removed by sewage treatment nor completely destroyed in the environment. Metformin (MET) triclosan (TRI) two compounds PPCPs that have potential to be environmental pollutants. This research aimed determine MET TRI sludge using a liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer (LCMS-8040) extraction method. The Milli-Q wate...

Abstract In this paper, we propose to apply the linear mixed effects model (LMEM) for first time in discipline evaluate wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) data. Because most widely used statistical analyses cannot handle data dependency, as well fixed and random factors, a new approach was essential. We LMEM method analyze three groups of 19 pharmaceuticals personal care products (PPCPs) from Ca...