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Fuzheng Zhao, Qingmiao Yu and Xu-Xiang Zhang
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges to public health and ecological safety in the 21st century. Urban wastewater treatment plants (UWTPs), as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), sim...
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Yuhua Zhou, Jing Lei, Yu Zhang, Jing Zhu, Yanna Lu, Xuefang Wu and Hao Fang
Industrial wastewater and sewage are both important sources of heavy metals and metalloids in urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). China has made great efforts to control heavy metal and metalloid pollution by setting discharge limits for WWTPs. Th...
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Yuhua Zhou, Ning Duan, Xuefang Wu and Hao Fang
Discharge standards are among the most important regulations to control pollutants discharged from industries and domestic uses. China has made great efforts to build up its discharge standard system and develop methods to derive limits. However, there i...
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Imke Fricke, Rolf Götz, Ruprecht Schleyer and Wilhelm Püttmann
Mercury (Hg) is still a focus of environmental research, since its levels in fish frequently exceed the Environmental Quality Standard (EQS) of 20 µg/kg for biota defined by the European Water Framework Directive (Directive 2008/105/EC). Current Hg level...
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Enrique J. Flores-Munguía, José Luis Rosas-Acevedo, Aurelio Ramírez-Hernández, Alejandro Aparicio-Saguilan, Rosa M. Brito-Carmona and Juan Violante-González
Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by microplastics (MPs) is mainly due to the release of high levels of MP particles from treated effluents by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Due to the lack of policies and regulations establishing criteria for th...
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Fanlin Meng, Guangtao Fu, David Butler
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End-of-pipe permitting is a widely practised approach to control effluent discharges from wastewater treatment plants. However, the effectiveness of the traditional regulation paradigm is being challenged by increasingly complex environmental issues, eve...
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Maria Kalli, Constantinos Noutsopoulos and Daniel Mamais
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious problem for modern society, not only associated with clinical environments, but also the natural environment. Conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are important nodes for the dissemination of antibi...
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Franciane de Almeida Brehm Goulart, Gabriela Reichert, Tais Cristina Felippe, Alinne Mizukawa, Jhonatas Antonelli, Cristóvão Scapulatempo Fernandes and Júlio César Rodrigues de Azevedo
In urban areas, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a major role in the water quality of rivers. The removal efficiency of emerging contaminants by WWTPs is strongly correlated with the type of treatment and the hydraulic retention time (HRT) of the...
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Samuel Moles, Rosa Mosteo, Jairo Gómez, Joanna Szpunar, Sebastiano Gozzo, Juan R. Castillo and María P. Ormad
This research aims to assess the presence of four antibiotic compounds detected in the influent and effluent of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in the POCTEFA territory (north of Spain and south of France) during the period of 2018?2019, and to relat...
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Shun-hwa Lee, Yeon-jung Cho, Miran Lee and Byung-Dae Lee
We surveyed the variation in perfluorinated compound (PFC) concentrations entering urban wastewater treatment plants and then designed an optimal PFCs treatment method based on a pilot test. The PFCs influent concentration was found to be affected by the...
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Domenica Mirauda and Marco Ostoich
The present study develops an integrated methodology combining the results of the water-quality classification, according to the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC?WFD, with those of a mathematical integrity model. It is able to analyse the potential a...
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Domenica Mirauda and Marco Ostoich
The present study develops an integrated methodology combining the results of the water-quality classification, according to the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC?WFD, with those of a mathematical integrity model. It is able to analyse the potential a...
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Stefania Arborea, Giacomo Giannoccaro, Bernardo C. De Gennaro, Vito Iacobellis and A. Ferruccio Piccinni
A comprehensive economic analysis of the associated costs and benefits derived from wastewater treatment is a prerequisite for ensuring long-term economic, environmental, and social sustainability. This study aims to improve the economic evaluation of wa...
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Stefania Arborea, Giacomo Giannoccaro, Bernardo C. de Gennaro, Vito Iacobellis, A. Ferruccio Piccinni
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A comprehensive economic analysis of the associated costs and benefits derived from wastewater treatment is a prerequisite for ensuring long-term economic, environmental, and social sustainability. This study aims to improve the economic evaluation of wa...
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Wenxia Lu, Xueyong Tian, Yongguang Ma, Yinyan Guan, Libo Liu and Liwei Shi
Sewage treatment plants face significant problems as a result of the annual growth in urban sewage discharge. Substandard sewage discharge can also be caused by rising sewage treatment expenses and unpredictable procedures. The most widely used sewage tr...
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Yuting Liu, Wenchong Tian, Jun Xie, Weizhong Huang and Kunlun Xin
With the increasing demands for higher treatment efficiency, better effluent quality, and energy conservation in Urban Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs), research has already been conducted to construct an optimized control system for Anaerobic-Anoxic-...
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Noura Al Nasiri, Abdullah Al Fazari, Waad Ali, Boadi Agyekum and Elnazir Ramadan
Sewer Treatment Plants (STPs) are essential pieces of infrastructure given the growing scarcity of water sources due to the challenges of urbanization. The positioning of STPs is a complex multidimensional process that involves integrative decision-makin...
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Bozena McCarthy, Samuel Obeng Apori, Michelle Giltrap, Abhijnan Bhat, James Curtin and Furong Tian
The present study employs a data review on the presence and aggregation of oxytetracycline (OTC) and resistance (AMR) bacteria in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and the distribution of the contaminated effluent with the aid of shallow and deep ocea...
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Andrey Kiselev, Elena Magaril, Deborah Panepinto, Elena Cristina Rada, Marco Ravina and Maria Chiara Zanetti
Urban wastewater effluents bring large amounts of nutrients, organic matter, and organic microcontaminants into freshwater ecosystems. Ensuring the quality of wastewater treatment (WWT) is one of the main challenges facing the management of wastewater tr...
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Olena Dmitrieva,Irina Khorenzhaja,Valerie Vasylenko,Stanislav Osypenko,Natalia Teliura,Olga Lomakina,Liudmyla Melnik,Irina Koldoba
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A methodological approach has been devised for determining the priority phytoremediation technology for the treatment of wastewater from settlements, based on the hierarchy analysis method (MAI). The proposed approach makes it possible to involve experts...
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