Advanced Oxidation Processes for Degradation of Antibiotics in Water
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 1530
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Because a large amount of the administered doses are excreted from medicine applications, agriculture, and the pharmaceutical industry, a substantial amount of antibiotics (e.g., tetracyclines, sulfonamides, and fluoroquinolones) are released into the environment. For example, fluoroquinolones are a class of antibacterial compounds used extensively in both human and veterinary medicine and have a total consumption of approximately 44 million kilograms every year worldwide; fluoroquinolones exist in hospital wastewaters (60–120000 ng/L), wastewater treatment plant effluents (2–580 ng/L), and surface waters (5–1300 ng/L). However, the antibiotics in the environment cannot be effectively removed or degraded by sewage treatment processes due to their stable chemical structures. It has been demonstrated that the residue of antibiotics in the environment can result in the evolution of novel antibiotic-resistant bacteria that ultimately pose a threat to the aquatic ecosystem and human health, such as human organ lesions and an increased bacterial resistance. Hence, it is significant and essential to remove antibiotics efficiently from water to reduce the environmental and ecological risks. In this Special Issue, review articles, research papers, and short communications will focus on the recent advances in the degradation of antibiotics via advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), including photocatalysis, Fenton, Fenton-like, UV/H2O2, and O3 catalytic ozonation.
Prof. Dr. Weiliang Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water treatment
- advanced oxidation processes
- photocatalysis
- Fenton and Fenton-like
