Xenobiotics in Wastewater: Occurrence, Monitoring, Epidemiological Studies and Approaches for Clean-Up
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 202
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emergent water pollutants; organic micropollutants; pollution by pharmaceuticals; environmental biotechnology; wastewater treatment; phytoremediation; constructed wetlands; adsorption processes; clay sorbents
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: emergent water pollutants; organic micropollutants; pollution by pharmaceuticals; environmental chemistry; physical and chemical processes with environmental relevance; adsorption processes; sorbents for organic pollutants
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasing attention is being given to the emerging contaminants, among which xenobiotics with an anthropogenic origin comprise an important group. These substances, including pharmaceuticals, pesticides and microplastics, can accumulate both in the environment and in organisms, thereby becoming a serious threat to ecosystems and biodiversity.
Industrial development and the use of wastewater-treatment technologies that are inefficient at dealing with such pollutants ultimately results in increasing levels of xenobiotics contaminating natural waters. Therefore, it is urgent to analyze the presence of xenobiotics in waters, define transfer and transformation pathways, assess their impact at individual levels of the trophic chain and characterize their potential toxicity. Additionally, relevant epidemiological information about lifestyle habits, public health and wellbeing can be obtained from chemical analysis of wastewaters since these effluents mirror society and reflect their uses. Furthermore, the need to improve the wastewater treatment efficiency targeting this group of pollutants is a top priority.
The goals of this Special Issue are to gather emergent research dedicated to xenobiotic water pollutants, towards a framework of wastewater-based epidemiology studies as a reliable and complementary approach to monitor and back-estimate the amounts and types of substances used by defined population groups as well as to present alternative or complementary wastewater-treatment technologies with potentially relevant efficiencies in the removal of this group of pollutants.
Dr. Ana Vitória Barrocas Dordio
Dr. Alfredo Jorge Palace Carvalho
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomarker
- consumption
- epidemiology
- population
- xenobiotics
- wastewater
- wastewater treatment
