Advanced Materials for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

Auteur

P.V. Nidheesh is a Senior Scientist at CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, India.

Aydin Hassani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Engineering at Near East University, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Texte du rabat

This book provides an overview of the production and environmental impacts of pharmaceutical compounds and their advanced treatment methods, with a focus on advanced materials used for removing pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater.

Résumé

Effluents generated from the pharmaceutical industry contain organic and inorganic contaminants that create potential threats to human health and the environment. Pharmaceuticals cannot be effectively removed by conventional wastewater treatment plants owing to the complex composition, high concentration of organic contaminants, high salinity, and biological toxicity of pharmaceutical wastewater. This book provides an overview of the production and environmental impacts of pharmaceutical compounds and their advanced treatment methods, with a focus on advanced materials used for removing pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater.

• Provides an overview of the current state of advanced research and applications of materials for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment

• Discusses various adsorbents, photocatalysts, and electrodes, with a special focus on carbon materials

• Covers advanced material synthesis and fabrication

• Features case studies and chapters that are fully application-oriented The book is essential reading for researchers and practitioners in materials science and engineering, environmental science and engineering, chemical engineering, and water treatment who are seeking to develop and implement advanced technologies for waste minimization and mitigation.

Contenu

1. Pharmaceuticals: Types and Production. 2. Pharmaceuticals Residues: Environmental Impacts, Guidelines and Remediation in Various Environmental Matrices. 3. Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Adsorbents for Pharmaceutical Removal. 4. Magnetic Adsorbents for the Removal of Pharmaceutical Contaminants. 5. Layered Double Hydroxides Adsorbents for Pharmaceutical Removal. 6. Carbon Materials as Adsorbent and Catalyst. 7. Layered Double Hydroxides (LDHs)-Based Materials Applied in Advanced Photocatalytic Oxidation of Pharmaceuticals. 8. Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXene)-Based Photocatalyst for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment. 9. Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment. 10. Polymer-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment. 11. Carbon Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment. 12. Metallic Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Removal: Electrocoagulation and Electrooxidation. 13. Boron Doped Diamond Electrodes for Pharmaceuticals Removal.