Nanomaterials for the Abatement of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products from Wastewater
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Author(s)
Geobaldo, Francesco
Bonelli, Barbara
Freyria, Francesca S
Date Issued
January 2018
Journal
Applied Sciences
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Citation
Freyria, Francesca, et al. “Nanomaterials for the Abatement of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products from Wastewater.” Applied Sciences, vol. 8, no. 2, Jan. 2018, p. 170.
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Final published version
Abstract
In this short-review, the most common types of both pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCP, a class of “emerging pollutants”) are considered, as well as some of the most frequent methods for their removal that envisage the use of nanomaterials. The nanomaterials used in conservative methods (namely, reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and adsorption) are basically nanoporous solids. Non-conservative methods, which include photocatalysis and Fenton reaction, are currently considered more promising than conservative ones, as the former allow the (at least) partial degradation of the original molecules into more biodegradable by-products, which can be further abated by subsequent biological treatments, whereas the former are not efficient for the removal of small quantities of pollutants and have to be regenerated. Keywords: emerging pollutants; PPCPs; photocatalysis; nanomaterials
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.3390/app8020170
