Advanced Materials for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

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.

List of contents

1. Pharmaceuticals: Types and Production. 2. Pharmaceutical Residues: Environmental Impacts, Guidelines, and Remediation in Various Environmental Matrices. 3. Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Adsorbents for Pharmaceutical Removal. 4. Magnetic Adsorbents for the Removal of Pharmaceutical Contaminants. 5. Layered Double Hydroxide Adsorbents for Pharmaceutical Removal. 6. Carbon Materials as Adsorbents and Catalysts. 7. Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH)-Based Materials Applied in Advanced Photocatalytic Oxidation of Pharmaceuticals. 8. Transition Metal Carbide and Nitride (MXene)-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment. 9. Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment. 10. Polymer-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment. 11. Carbon Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment. 12. Metallic Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Removal: Electrocoagulation and Electrooxidation. 13. Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Removal.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: P.v. Hassani Nidheesh
• Assisted by: Aydin Hassani (Editor), P.V. Nidheesh (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032373232
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3237323-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Emerging Materials and Technologies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management, Waste treatment & disposal, Water supply & treatment, Pharmaceutical technology, Pharmaceutical chemistry and technology, Waste treatment and disposal, Water supply and treatment, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Pharmaceutical