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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 239, Issue -, Pages 1-18Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.05.040
Keywords
Wastewater; Pharmaceuticals; Illicit drugs; Doping substances; Organophosphates; PFCs
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal) [SFRH/BPD/67088/2009]
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh010010] Funding Source: researchfish
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A wastewater treatment plant may receive various types of wastewater namely, urban, industrial, agricultural, washout from the streets, wet or/and dry atmospheric deposition. As such, scientists have detected in wastewaters all major categories of pollutants like persistent organic pollutants (POPs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and pesticides, but also substances that are widely used as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, classified as PPCPs (pharmaceuticals and personal care products). Finally, the latest categories of compounds to be looked upon in these types of matrices are illicit drugs (drugs of abuse, like cocaine, etc.) and doping substances. This review article summarises major categories of organic microcontaminants that have been detected in wastewaters and studies their fate during the wastewater treatment process. Occurrence of these compounds in the influents and effluents are reported, as well as percents of removal, mass balances and phase distributions. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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