Advanced Oxidation Process-Based Integrated and Hybrid Technologies for Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products

Advanced Oxidation Process-based Integrated and Hybrid Technologies for Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products addresses PPCP removal from wastewater by the recent application of AOP-based hybrid techniques. Technological advancement of AOPs and AOP-based hybrid methods are discussed and will highlight the perspectives on fundamental and technological advancements in AOP and AOP-based hybrid methods for PPCPs removal from wastewater. A detailed cost analysis of different AOP-based hybrid techniques is examined to help readers formulate guidelines to transform the wastewater treatment process from lab scale to pilot/industrial scale.

List of contents

1. Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products as Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Sources, Nature, and Possible Health Effects
Smriti Ojha
2. Environmental Impact of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs): Challenges, Removal Technologies, and Advanced Materials
Nidhi Chauhan
3. Current State and Future Prospects of Hospital Wastewater Treatment Using Advanced Oxidation Processes
Anupama Shrivastav
4. A review on synthesis silica oxide nanoparticles (SiO2-NPs) and their use to remove pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from aqueous solution
Jay Mant Jha and Dhiraj Kishor Tatar
5. Membrane systems for the PPCPs removal from wastewater
Shikha Wadhwa
6. Adsorption-Membrane hybrid system for pharmaceutical degradation
Anupama Shrivastav
7. The removal of PPCPs from real wastewater
Hind YAACOUBI and Afzal Husain Khan
8. Integrated and Hybrid Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) - Biological systems for Degradation of Organic Pollutants from PPCPs
Sonanki Keshri
9. PPCPs in wastewater: Kinetics and Thermodynamic analysis
Joginder Singh and Prasann Kumar
10. Advanced oxidation process - Membrane bioreactor hybrid approach for the removal of Pharmaceutical and personal care products
Anupama Shrivastav
11. Antibiotics degradation by AOP-based hybrid methods
Yunus Ahmed
12. Removal of PPCPs using integrated Adsorption/AOP systems
Shikha Wadhwa
13. Integrated and Hybrid AOP-Membrane systems for PPCPs degradation
Pramita Sen
14. Membrane Fouling Control Using Integrated AOP-Membrane Systems
Joginder Singh and Prasann Kumar
15. Biological Treatment for Degradation of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds (PhACs) in Wastewater
Anita Girdhar
16. Design approach for sustainable integrated and hybrid wastewater techniques
Sudha S
17. Electrochemical-based hybrid methods for the treatment of PPCPs in water matrix
kisan koirala
18. Cost Estimation and Energy consumption of AOPs and AOP-based integrated and hybrid systems
Joginder Singh and Prasann Kumar
19. Nanomaterials Integrated Hybrid Treatments of PPCPs
Linkon Bharali
20. Sustainable Herbal Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment with Energy Recovery
SUDHANSHU MISHRA
21. Recent advancements in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment: A Techno-Economic and environmental feasibility
Shubha Dwivedi, Himanshi Chaudhary and Dr. Naveen Dwivedi
22. Emulsion Liquid membrane system for the pharmaceutical and personal care products removal from wastewater
Himanshu Kohli, Akash R. Raval and Omprakash K. Mahadwad
23. An overview of Electrochemical advanced oxidation assisted processes for the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater
SAIF ULLAH KHAN, Asma Bari, Rahat ALam, Mohd Aqeel and Mohammad Faisal
24. Antibiotics Removal from Wastewater with PVA-Based Composites
Deniz Izlen CIFCI
25. Technological advancements in decomposition of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products using Photocatalytic Advanced Oxidation Processes
Prabir Ghosh
26. Combinatorial Approach Integrating Advanced Oxidation Process to the Microalgal Treatment for PPCP Removal from Wastewater
Abhilasha Shourie
27. Efficiency Comparison of Hybrid Advanced Oxidation Processes for Removal of Ciprofloxacin from Water
Kuldeep Kaur
28. Opportunities and Adoptive Challenges of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in Wastewater Treatment Schemes in Developing Countries
Alaa El Din Mahmoud

About the author

Dr. Amit K. Thakur received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri, Dhanbad, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and Ph. D (Chemical Engineering) from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has total 12 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 25 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and participated in many conferences, workshops, and training programs. He has 1 patent granted by the government of India. He is reviewer of many journals such as, Separation science and Technology, Powder Technology, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Particuology, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, etc. His research interest includes Advanced oxidation process, Pharmaceuticals, and personal care products (PPCPs) degradation, multi-scale modeling & optimization and Pharmaceutical Crystallization. He has published several chapters with Springer, Elsevier and Nova Science, USA, edited books.Dr. Rahul Kumar received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jhansi, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and Ph. D (Chemical Engineering) from Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has total 12 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 20 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and participated in many conferences, workshops, and training programs. His research interest includes Environmental science, pharmaceutical degradation, multi-scale modeling & optimization and Pharmaceutical Crystallization. He has published many chapters with Springer Nature.Dr. Nadeem A Khan is currently working as an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Civil Engineering at King Khalid University, Abha,
Saudi Arabia. He worked at Mewat Engineering College as an Assistant
Professor from August 1, 2012, to February 23, 2022. He has submitted
his Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He also acted as
Academic Coordinator of the Civil Engineering department from 2014
to 2017. He is an editorial board member of Nature Journal - Scientific
Reports (IF=4.3) and a special issue editor of Springer Journal on Discover
Water. His recent accomplishments included 15 Coursera course
completion certificates. LWT India and GECL awarded them the Best
Young Scientist Award (Male) for their Scientific contribution to Environmental Engineering.
He has also served as an external examiner and paper setter at Integral University, Lucknow,
and Dehradun Technical University since 2013. Has got his M. Tech. (Civil Engineering) in
2011, and received Honors in Environmental Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University.
Mr. Khan was associated with the Ministry of Environment and Forest for two years as
a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in 2009-11 and also worked with UNICEF as a Research
Assistant (RA) on the topic ofGIS mapping andWater quality parameter estimation, including
monitoring of the Agra Region for six months in 2012. He has professional experience at DLFLaing’s
Rourke India Ltd as a Construction Engineer on an SEZ project in Gurgaon from
2008 to 2009. He qualified for the GATE examinations in 2010. His industry activity areas
were post-contract works, reconciliation, planning, and budgeting. His one chapter about
SBR wastewater treatment technology was recently published in Lenin Publication. He has
attended several conferences, workshops, seminars, and research projects, and has engaged
in various research endeavors. He has published 03 Books with International Publishers, 55
papers in SCI, and 15 in National journals. He has also published more than 10 patents in
Civil Engineering and water treatment. He is also active in social welfare activities. He is the
Joint Secretary of the Environmental Awareness Society, Environsense, which organizes over
25 events.Dr. Afzal Husain Khan works in the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department at Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, and B.E. and M. Tech degrees from the Aligarh Muslim University, India. He is an academic editor of PLOS ONE, Advances in Civil Engineering (Wiley), Associate Editor in TEIEE, and Guest Editor in Elsevier/Springer/Frontiers journals. He has been involved in many funded projects under the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) in Saudi Arabia. He has 90+ peer-reviewed publications (h-index >30; >3000+ citations), 4 books (edited), 6 patents, and 5 book chapters to his credit.
Dr. Ravi Shankar received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri, Dhanbad, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He has total 09 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience. He has published more than 35 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. Presently he is supervising 07 Ph.D. students from different disciplines. His current research is related to Advanced Oxidation Process (Electrocoagulation), Microbial Fuel Cell, Heat Transfer, and Biofuel. He has published more than 10 book chapters in Springer, Elsevier and Nova Science, USA, edited books.Dr. Md. Nahid Pervez is a research fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno (Italy), where he drives research activities at the Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED). Dr. Pervez received his BSc degree in Textile Engineering (2014) at the Southeast University (Bangladesh) under the supervision of Prof Syed Fakhrul Hassan. After that, he secured Color Root (Hubei) Scholarship to pursue his MSc studies in Textile Engineering at the Wuhan Textile University (China) in 2016. Then he received his Ph.D. from the University of Salerno (Italy) in 2022. His research focuses on wastewater treatment, resource recovery, sustainable textiles, and process modelling. Dr. Pervez is the Topical Advisory Panel Member of Sustainability. He serves as Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Sustainability and Review Editor for Frontiers in Water.

Product details

• Assisted by: Afzal Husain Khan (Editor), Amit K. Thakur (Editor), Afzal Husain Khan (Editor), Nadeem A Khan (Editor), Rahul Kumar (Editor), Kumar Rahul (Editor), Md. Nahid Pervez (Editor), Nadeem A Khan (Editor), Md Nahid Pervez (Editor), Ravi Shankar (Editor), Amit K Thakur (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2025
• EAN: 9780443218873
• ISBN: 978-0-443-21887-3
• Weight: 450 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, The environment, environmental science, engineering & technology, Science / Environmental Science, Waste Management, Waste treatment & disposal, Pollution control, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Waste treatment and disposal