Treatment of anticancer drugs in a real wastewater effluent using nanofiltration: A pilot scale study

Cristóvão, M.B.; Bernardo, Jorge; Bento-Silva, Andreia; Ressureição, M.; Bronze, Maria Rosário; Crespo, João G.; Pereira, Vanessa J.

doi:10.1016/j.seppur.2022.120565

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“…When evaluating a process such as the removal of CECs to solve environmental problems, economic, social, and environmental considerations must be taken into account as well as determining which of the processes studied are appropriate for a particular application. Different treatment technologies have been investigated for the removal of CECs from water and wastewater [6][7][8][9][10][11][12], and some showed very good efficiency. Ozonation, for example, provides more than 90% removal of examined substances such as carbamazepine, fexofenadine, tolyltriazole, cetirizine, caffeine, and suisobenzone [13].…”

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Lignocellulose-Based Biosorbents for the Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) from Water: A Review

Vasić,

Kukić,

Šćiban

et al. 2023

Water

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Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are chemicals or materials that are not under current regulation but there are increasing concerns about their possible occurrence in the environment because of their potential threat to human and environmental health, with wastewater perceived as their primary source. Although various techniques for their removal from water have been studied, it should be emphasized that the choice should also consider the use of resources and energy within the removal processes, which must be minimized to avoid additional carbon footprints and environmental impact. In this context, the use of biomass-based sorbents might represent a cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach for the removal of CECs from water because they are based on preferably local renewable resources with lower negative impacts on the global carbon cycle through greenhouse gas emissions than the conventional nonrenewable ones. This paper provides an overview of the studies dealing with the application of such so-called biosorbents for the removal of CECs from water and discusses the use of their different forms: sorbents after a minimal pretreatment of the original lignocellulosic biomass; sorbents extracted from lignocellulosic biomass and/or modified; and biochar-based sorbents obtained after thermochemical conversion of biomass. It explains possible modifications of biosorbents and discusses the efficiency of various biosorbents for the removal of selected emerging compounds that belong to the classes of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and pesticides and compares the adsorption capacities, kinetic models, and mechanisms reported in the relevant literature. Biochar-based sorption has been studied more often if compared to other considered biosorbents. In some cases, removal efficiencies of contaminants greater than 90% were achieved, but nonetheless a wide range of efficiencies for different CECs indicates that for successful simultaneous multicompound removal, a combination of different processes seems to be a more appropriate approach than the stand-alone use of biosorbents. Finally, this review discusses the reasons behind the limited commercial application of the considered biosorbents and provides directions for possible further research, in particular the use of spent biosorbents from a perspective of circular systems.

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Lignocellulose-Based Biosorbents for the Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) from Water: A Review

Vasić,

Kukić,

Šćiban

et al. 2023

Water

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“…Literature surveying shows that depollution of pharmaceutical wastewater has been performed employing conventional treatment approaches (e.g., coagulation, sedimentation, sand filtration) as well as advanced processes (e.g., ozonation, adsorption, reverse osmosis) (Cristóvão et al 2022 ; El-Azazy et al 2021b ; El-Gendy et al 2020 ; Khan et al 2021 ; Yang et al 2017 ). Among these methods, adsorption onto carbonaceous materials has been widely utilized for the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater due to its many advantages (high capacity due to the high surface area, speed, absence of byproducts, low investment, and simple operation) (Abdel Maksoud et al 2020 ; Osman et al 2022 ).…”

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Competitive adsorptive removal of promazine and promethazine from wastewater using olive tree pruning biochar: operational parameters, kinetics, and equilibrium investigations

El-Azazy

El-Shafie

Fawzy

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This research aims to remove two phenothiazines, promazine (PRO) and promethazine (PMT), from their individual and binary mixtures using olive tree pruning biochar (BC-OTPR). The impact of individual and combinatory effects of operational variables was evaluated for the first time using central composite design (CCD). Simultaneous removal of both drugs was maximized utilizing the composite desirability function. At low concentrations, the uptake of PRO and PMT from their individual solutions was achieved with high efficiency of 98.64%, 47.20 mg/g and 95.87%, 38.16 mg/g, respectively. No major differences in the removal capacity were observed for the binary mixtures. Characterization of BC-OTPR confirmed successful adsorption and showed that the OTPR surface was predominantly mesoporous. Equilibrium investigations revealed that the Langmuir isotherm model best describes the sorption of PRO/PMT from their individual solutions with maximum adsorption capacities of 640.7 and 346.95 mg/g, respectively. The sorption of PRO/PMT conforms to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. Regeneration of the adsorbent surface was successfully done with desorption efficiencies of 94.06% and 98.54% for PRO and PMT, respectively, for six cycles. Graphical abstract

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“…Faced with all these public health problems that can be caused by hospital wastewater, it is, therefore, urgent to propose a purification technology that is less expensive, easy to access and does not require any particular qualification based on the use of local products and having the effectiveness of action on physico-chemical and bacteriological pollution of hospital wastewater. Numerous processes such as coagulation-flocculation [6], adsorption [10], ozonation [11], membrane filtration processes [12], photocatalytic oxidation [13] are used to purify wastewater. Among these methods, the coagulation process is preferentially applied to remove pollutants from water because of its high effectiveness and easiness of application on a wide range of water types [14].…”

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Use of Natural Coagulants in Removing Organic Matter, Turbidity and Fecal Bacteria from Hospital Wastewater by Coagulation-Flocculation Process

Tometin¹,

Nonfodji²,

Chouti³

et al. 2022

JWARP

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Hospital wastewater represents an infectious and toxic risk to human health and the environment due to its contents. Most hospitals in developing countries, including Benin, do not have a wastewater treatment plant. In this study, the wastewater from two hospitals in northern Benin was characterized and then treated with Azadirachta indica leaves, Moringa oleifera and Luffa cylindrica seeds by coagulation/flocculation process. The wastewater characteristics showed that the collected samples are greatly polluted by organic matter and fecal bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Enterococcus fecal and Total coliforms. Jar-test results revealed that 95.74%, 78%, 49.19% of turbidity, 51.35%, 38.32%, 22.19% of COD, 93.16%, 85.26%, 83.30% against Escherichia coli, 92.11%, 90.93%, 94.60% against total Coliforms and 99.37%, 91%, 99%, 55.07% against Enterococcus were removed from hospital wastewater using Moringa oleifera, Luffa cylindrica seed and Azadirachta indica leaves respectively at dose of 100 mg/L. The results highlighted that the natural coagulants could be successfully used for the removal of turbidity and fecal bacteria from hospital wastewater.

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Treatment of anticancer drugs in a real wastewater effluent using nanofiltration: A pilot scale study

Cited by 19 publications

References 33 publications

Lignocellulose-Based Biosorbents for the Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) from Water: A Review

Lignocellulose-Based Biosorbents for the Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) from Water: A Review

Competitive adsorptive removal of promazine and promethazine from wastewater using olive tree pruning biochar: operational parameters, kinetics, and equilibrium investigations

Use of Natural Coagulants in Removing Organic Matter, Turbidity and Fecal Bacteria from Hospital Wastewater by Coagulation-Flocculation Process

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