Advances in Treatment Methods Towards Emerging Contaminants
Sources, Occurrences and Health Effects
- 1st Edition - October 29, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Nabisab Mujawar Mubarak, Nadeem A Khan, Eduardo Alberto López-Maldonado, Arshad Hussain
- Language: English
Advances in Treatment Methods Towards Emerging Contaminants: Sources, Occurrences and Health Effects is a vital resource for understanding the detection, monitoring, analys… Read more
Advances in Treatment Methods Towards Emerging Contaminants: Sources, Occurrences and Health Effects is a vital resource for understanding the detection, monitoring, analysis, and remediation of emerging contaminants. This comprehensive guide offers both theoretical insights and practical instructions, making it indispensable for researchers and industry experts. By exploring fundamental aspects such as transformations and toxicology, the book provides a thorough understanding of emerging pollutants and contaminants. In addition to recent advancements in detection techniques, this book features case studies on new remediation strategies, including the use of green technology and nanotechnology.
It is an essential reference for policymakers, graduate students, and professionals working in environmental monitoring and waste treatment.
It is an essential reference for policymakers, graduate students, and professionals working in environmental monitoring and waste treatment.
- Covers promising routes and techniques for emerging contaminant degradation, such as treatments using green technology and the inclusion of AI/ML and biosensors in emerging contaminant detection
- Details the latest developments in treatment technologies for emerging contaminants like adsorption, photocatalysis, and renewable energy approaches to support method evaluation and optimization
- Evaluates modeling approaches that can be used to analyze and monitor emerging contaminants and predict treatment performance to guide system design and operation
Advances in Treatment Methods Towards Emerging Contaminants will be a valuable guide for researchers, academics and industry experts working with environmental monitoring end emerging contaminants – including chemists and chemical engineers working on new analysis and remediation or transformation strategies to tackle the removal of environmental contaminants.
Dedication
Introduction
Part 1: Introduction to Emerging contaminants presence in water and soil
1. Environmental Chemistry and toxicity of Emerging contaminants
2. Developments in categorizing and handling emerging contaminants in ecosystem: toxicity assessment, analytical approaches, revolutionary pathways, environmental fate, and remedy
3. Mechanism of environmental toxicity of toxic Emerging contaminants removal
4. Sources, occurrence and distribution of Emerging pollutants in water environments
5. Metal based Contaminant removal using carbon nano structures composite
Part 2: Detection and monitoring of Emerging contaminants in light of green technology
6. Understanding the toxicity, exposure pathways, and health risks of emerging contaminants
7. Health effects of Emerging contaminants on human health and its toxicity
8. Toxicity and health impacts of emerging contaminates
9. Emerging contaminants for photocatalytic application
10. Mxene based material for Emerging contaminant removal
Part 3: Emerging Contaminants Transportation Mechanisms
11. Organic basics contaminant removal using polymer based nano materials
12. Mxenes-based composites as pioneering solutions for emerging contaminants treatment
13. Promising techniques for degradation of Emerging contaminants
Part 4: Health Effects of emerging Contaminants in water and soil
14. Photocatalytic Applications for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants
Part 5: Renewable energy treatment aspect, applications and biosensors use in wastewater treatment
15. Next-Generation Strategies for Emerging Contaminant Remediation to Enable a Clean Water Future
16. Sustainable Removal of Emerging Contaminants: Integrating Ozonation-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes and Renewable Energy Solutions
17. MXene-Polymer Composites Advanced Materials for Removing Emerging Contaminants in Water Treatment
18. MXene polymer composite for Emerging contaminants removal
19. Fundamentals and mechanism of emerging contaminants degradation
20. Promising route and technique Emerging contaminants degradation
21. Nanomaterial-based material for Emerging Contaminant Removal
22. Properties and Transportation Mechanism
23. 2D- polymer material for Emerging contaminant removal
24. A comprehensive review of photocatalytic methods for removing emerging contaminants from water and wastewater
25. Carbon based Nanomaterial for Emerging contaminant removal
26. Adsorption mechanism and performance parameters for removal of emerging contaminants
27. MXene/Polymer Composites: Revolutionizing Healthcare with Enhanced Durability and Multifunctionality in Medical Devices
28. Ecological affect associated with Emerging Contaminants
29. Emerging Contaminants Removal Using Sustainable Renewable Energy
30. MXene-based material for biosensing applications for Emerging pollutants
31. Emerging Contaminants detection based on biosensors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Introduction to Emerging contaminants presence in water and soil
1. Environmental Chemistry and toxicity of Emerging contaminants
2. Developments in categorizing and handling emerging contaminants in ecosystem: toxicity assessment, analytical approaches, revolutionary pathways, environmental fate, and remedy
3. Mechanism of environmental toxicity of toxic Emerging contaminants removal
4. Sources, occurrence and distribution of Emerging pollutants in water environments
5. Metal based Contaminant removal using carbon nano structures composite
Part 2: Detection and monitoring of Emerging contaminants in light of green technology
6. Understanding the toxicity, exposure pathways, and health risks of emerging contaminants
7. Health effects of Emerging contaminants on human health and its toxicity
8. Toxicity and health impacts of emerging contaminates
9. Emerging contaminants for photocatalytic application
10. Mxene based material for Emerging contaminant removal
Part 3: Emerging Contaminants Transportation Mechanisms
11. Organic basics contaminant removal using polymer based nano materials
12. Mxenes-based composites as pioneering solutions for emerging contaminants treatment
13. Promising techniques for degradation of Emerging contaminants
Part 4: Health Effects of emerging Contaminants in water and soil
14. Photocatalytic Applications for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants
Part 5: Renewable energy treatment aspect, applications and biosensors use in wastewater treatment
15. Next-Generation Strategies for Emerging Contaminant Remediation to Enable a Clean Water Future
16. Sustainable Removal of Emerging Contaminants: Integrating Ozonation-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes and Renewable Energy Solutions
17. MXene-Polymer Composites Advanced Materials for Removing Emerging Contaminants in Water Treatment
18. MXene polymer composite for Emerging contaminants removal
19. Fundamentals and mechanism of emerging contaminants degradation
20. Promising route and technique Emerging contaminants degradation
21. Nanomaterial-based material for Emerging Contaminant Removal
22. Properties and Transportation Mechanism
23. 2D- polymer material for Emerging contaminant removal
24. A comprehensive review of photocatalytic methods for removing emerging contaminants from water and wastewater
25. Carbon based Nanomaterial for Emerging contaminant removal
26. Adsorption mechanism and performance parameters for removal of emerging contaminants
27. MXene/Polymer Composites: Revolutionizing Healthcare with Enhanced Durability and Multifunctionality in Medical Devices
28. Ecological affect associated with Emerging Contaminants
29. Emerging Contaminants Removal Using Sustainable Renewable Energy
30. MXene-based material for biosensing applications for Emerging pollutants
31. Emerging Contaminants detection based on biosensors
Acknowledgements
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- Published: October 29, 2025
- Language: English
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Nabisab Mujawar Mubarak
Dr Nabisab Mujawar Mubarak is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam. He is a scientific reviewer in numerous Chemical Engineering and Nano Technology journals. In research, Dr. Mubarak has published more than 400 journal papers and 40 conference proceedings, authored 80 book chapters, and has a 77 H-index. His areas of interest are carbon nanomaterial synthesis, magnetic biochar production using microwaves, and wastewater treatment using advanced materials. He receives the Curtin Malaysia Most Productive Research award, Outstanding Faculty of Chemical Engineering award, Best Scientific Research Award London, and Exceptional Scientist in publication and citation by i- Proclaim, Malaysia. Since 2020, he has also been listed in the top two percent of the world's most influential scientists in chemicals and energy. The List of the Top 2% of Scientists in the World compiled and published by Stanford University is based on their international scientific publications, the number of scientific citations for research, and participation in the review and editing of scientific research. Dr. Mubarak is a Fellow Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) of The Institution of Engineers Australia, and a Chartered Chemical Engineer of the Institute of Chemical Engineering (IChemE), UK. He has published 11 books and is co-editor for ongoing Elsevier-edited books: 1) Nanomaterials for Carbon Capture and Conversion Technique, 2) Advanced Nanomaterials and nanocomposites for Bioelectrochemical Systems, 3) Water Treatment Using Engineered Carbon Nanotubes,4) Hybrid Nanomaterials for Sustainable Applications: Case Studies and Applications, 5), Sustainable Nanotechnology for Environmental Remediation, 6) Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications,7) Nanotechnology for Electronic Applications, 8) Application of Bio-Additives for the Food Industry, 9) Contemporary Nanomaterials in Material Engineering Applications, 10)Fundamentals of Biomaterials: A Supplementary Textbook, 11) Emerging Water Pollutants: Concerns and Remediation Technologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Univercity Technology Brunei, Brunei DarussalamNK
Nadeem A Khan
Dr. Nadeem A Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering department at King Khalid University, Abha. His major expertise is in wastewater treatment using a biological approach and addressing the feasibility of the desalination process via pre-treatment using a membrane-based bioreactor. His research focused on pharmaceutical removal using bioreactors, physicochemical methods, and their combination. He serves as an Editorial board member of Nature Journal- Scientific Reports and worked for the Springer-Discover Water, Hindawi journal and MDPI journal- water. He has co-authored/authored more than 100 refereed journals and 4 Patents. He had a lifetime citation 3033 with an H-index of 33. He also published 06 books with the International Water Association (IWA), CRC Press, and Elsevier publishing houses. Further, he has been with 06 patents so far on wastewater treatment.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering department, King Khalid University, AbhaEL
Eduardo Alberto López-Maldonado
Eduardo López-Maldonado has a BSc. in Chemical Engineering (2009) and a PhD. In Chemical Sciences (2012) from the National Technological Institute of Mexico-Tijuana, Center for Graduates and Research in Chemistry. His doctoral thesis consisted of an applied scientific research project linked to a semiconductor company located in the industrial zone of Tijuana, with which he won the award for Best Doctoral Thesis by the Mexican Society of Electrochemistry in 2013. Dr. López Maldonado, in 2013, received the opportunity to join the staff of researchers at the Center for Research and Technological Development in Electrochemistry (CIDETEQ) S.C., Tijuana Branch. There, he began his career as a researcher and was responsible for projects focused on obtaining natural biopolymers and their properties as coagulating, flocculating and chelating agents. He has specialized in carrying out basic and applied science research projects with industries in the region and at the national level. He is a member of the National System of Level I Researchers. He has extensive experience as a facilitator of the Environmental Leadership Program for Competitiveness (PLAC) by SEMARNAT and PROFEPA. Dr. López has participated in national and international conferences through oral presentations and posters in polymer chemistry and the development of innovative processes, the environment, and nanotechnology. To date, Dr. Eduardo is working as a full-time professor-researcher at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Engineering of the Autonomous University of Baja California on the Biopolyelectrolyte Engineering Research line.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor-Researcher, Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Autonomous University of Baja, CaliforniaAH
Arshad Hussain
Arshad Hussain has been working as an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering section, University Polytechnic, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh having 16 years teaching experience at various levels in B.Tech (Civil Engineering) and M.Tech (Environmental Engineering) at Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Techonology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P.), India, Diploma in Engineering (Civil), Advance Diploma in Environmental Engr., Advance Diploma in Food Technology, B.E.(Evening) and B. Sc. Hons.(Industrial chemistry). He had supervised many projects for the award of B.E. in Environmental Engr and B.Sc. Hons. (Industrial chemistry) course. He had supervised a few M.Tech. Environmental Engineering dissertations. He had been an editor of Proceedings, All India Seminar on Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, Aligarh, India, February 15-16th,2008. He had organized an All India Seminar on Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, Aligarh, India, February 15-16th,2008 and International conference on Emerging technologies in Environmental Science and Engineering held from 26-28th October 2009 organized by Department of Civil Engineering, ZHCET, AMU, Aligarh in collaboration with University of Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering section, University Polytechnic, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, IndiaRead Advances in Treatment Methods Towards Emerging Contaminants on ScienceDirect