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Waleed Jadaa
Wastewater discharges from industrial processes typically include elevated concentrations of contaminants, which largely consist of potentially harmful chemicals such as heavy metals. These contaminants are characterized by their slow rate of decompositi...
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Chengmei Shang, Zhixi Geng, Yuanyuan Sun, Dongxue Che, Qingjiao Zhao, Ting Chen, Ming Tang and Lijuan Huo
With the development of industrial activities and the agricultural and mining industries, farmland soils are facing serious problems related to heavy metal contamination, especially cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As) contamination. In this study, two industri...
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Muhammad Umer Masood, Muhammad Rashid, Saif Haider, Iram Naz, Chaitanya B. Pande, Salim Heddam, Fahad Alshehri, Ismail Elkhrachy, Amimul Ahsan and Saad Sh. Sammen
Groundwater is an important source of freshwater. At the same time, anthropogenic activities, in particular, industrialization, urbanization, population growth, and excessive application of fertilizers, are some of the major reasons for groundwater quali...
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Ozren Grozdanic, Ana-Marija Cindric, Iva Finderle and Dario Omanovic
In this study, we examined for the first time the spatio-temporal distribution of trace metal (TM) contaminants (Zn, Cd, Pb, Cu, Ni and Co) in the seawater column of Pula Bay. The bay has been known for decades as one of the most industrialized regions o...
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Néstor A. Urbina-Suarez, Cristian J. Salcedo-Pabón, Jefferson E. Contreras-Ropero, German L. López-Barrera, Janet B. García-Martínez, Andrés F. Barajas-Solano and Fiderman Machuca-Martínez
This study investigates the influence of photoperiod and wastewater concentration on the growth of microalgae and cyanobacteria for the removal of environmentally significant parameters (COD, BOD, Cr, Fe, color, chlorides, nitrogen compounds, and phospha...
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Olga S. Arvaniti, Georgios Gkotsis, Maria-Christina Nika, Stelios Gyparakis, Thrassyvoulos Manios, Nikolaos S. Thomaidis, Michalis S. Fountoulakis and Athanasios S. Stasinakis
The presence of 220 emerging contaminants belonging to different classes (artificial sweeteners, personal care products, coffee and tobacco-related compounds, and industrial chemicals) was investigated in hospital wastewater for the first time. Twenty sa...
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Abeer M. Shoaib, Amr A. Atawia, Mohamed H. Hassanean, Abdelrahman G. Gadallah and Ahmed A. Bhran
Water is the meaning of life for humans, agricultural and industrial processes; controlling the distribution of water and wastewater between industrial processes is very vital for rationalizing water and preserving the environment. This paper addresses a...
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Cristina E. Almeida-Naranjo, Víctor H. Guerrero and Cristina Alejandra Villamar-Ayala
Emerging contaminants (ECs) are causing negative effects on the environment and even on people, so their removal has become a priority worldwide. Adsorption and the associated technologies where this process occurs (filtration/biofiltration) have gained ...
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Manoj P. Rayaroth, Grzegorz Boczkaj, Olivier Aubry, Usha K. Aravind and Charuvila T. Aravindakumar
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) hold great promise in the removal of organic contaminants. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced in AOPs react with target pollutants to initially form several intermediate compounds that finally undergo complete mine...
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Candelaria Tejada-Tovar, Ángel Villabona-Ortíz and Rodrigo Ortega-Toro
The pollution of water bodies due to the discharge of effluents without treatment is a global problem. Therefore, different technologies have been implemented for the removal of contaminants from wastewater before the final disposition. Among them, adsor...
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