1st Edition
Advanced Materials for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment
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
This 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.
1. Pharmaceuticals: Types and Production
Zahra Sayyar and Aydin Hassani
2. Pharmaceutical Residues: Environmental Impacts, Guidelines, and Remediation in Various Environmental Matrices
Afzal Husain Khan
3. Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Adsorbents for Pharmaceutical Removal
Fatima Ezzahra Titchou and Mohamed Hamdani
4. Magnetic Adsorbents for the Removal of Pharmaceutical Contaminants
Vijayasri K. and Ajaya Kumar Singh
5. Layered Double Hydroxide Adsorbents for Pharmaceutical Removal
Karina Nava-Andrade and Santiago José Guevara-Martínez
6. Carbon Materials as Adsorbents and Catalysts
Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo, Ezinne Favour Ogulewe, Hoda Ansari, Abimbola Aleshinloye, and Mustafa Gazi
7. Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH)-Based Materials Applied in Advanced Photocatalytic Oxidation of Pharmaceuticals
Aydin Hassani, Paria Eghbali, and Farshid Ghanbari
8. Transition Metal Carbide and Nitride (MXene)-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment
Nahid Amini-Seresht and Mohsen Sheydaei
9. Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment
Venkateshwaran Gopal and Ambika Selvaraj
10. Polymer-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment
Nurul Izzati Izhar, Zul Adlan Mohd Hir, Nurul Syarima Nadia Sazman, Nur Ramadhan Mohamad Azaludin, Shaari Daud, and Hartini Ahmad Rafaie
11. Carbon Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment
Abdoulaye Thiam and Christian Onfray
12. Metallic Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Removal: Electrocoagulation and Electrooxidation
Farshid Ghanbari, Ali Yaghoot-Nezhad, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, and Aydin Hassani
13. Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Removal
Letícia G.A. Costa, Letícia Milena Gomes da Silva, José Eudes L. Santos, Tabata Natasha Feijoó Zambrano, Amanda D. Gondim, Lívia N. Cavalcanti, Elisama Vieira dos Santos, and Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle
Biography
P.V. Nidheesh is a principal 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.
