Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Innovative Trends in Removal of Refractory Pollutants from Pharmaceutical Wastewater

1st Edition - January 13, 2024
Editors: Maulin P. Shah, Susana Rodriguez-Couto
Language: English
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Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes: Innovative Trends in Removal of Refractory Pollutants from Pharmaceutical Waste Water sorts out emerging and burning issues faced by the pharmaceutical industry, along with common effluent treatment plans. The book provides a comprehensive view of recent advents of various novel, advanced and hybrid treatment technologies in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment to treat emerging pollutants released by the pharmaceutical industry in their untreated wastewater. In addition, the book gives insights into recent developments with a physico-chemical and microbiological focus on the treatment of emerging contaminants (pollutants) present in pharmaceutical wastewater.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Chapter 1. Pharmaceutical wastewater management: Physicochemical, chemical, and biological approaches
1. Introduction
2. Pharmaceutical compounds present in the wastewater
3. Physicochemical approach for the elimination of emerging contaminants
4. Chemical approach for removing emerging contaminants
5. Biological treatment approach for the removal of emerging contaminants
6. Phyto-remediation approaches for pharmaceuticals wastewater treatment
7. Mycoremediation approaches for pharmaceuticals wastewater treatment
8. Phyco-remediation approaches for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment
9. Pharmaceuticals wastewater treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic
10. Clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR) assisted bioremediation approach
11. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Applications of ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment
1. Introduction
2. Membrane separation approaches
3. Removal of emerging pharmaceutical contaminants by nanofiltration membrane system
4. Removal of the emerging pharmaceutical contaminants by ultrafiltration membrane system
5. Removal of emerging contaminants by reverse osmosis membrane system
6. Conclusion
Chapter 3. Recent advancement in bioremediation of pharmaceutical wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Refractory pollutants
3. Pharmaceutical industry wastewater (PIWW)
4. Bioremediation
5. Microorganisms involved in bioremediation of PIWW
6. Membrane bioreactors
7. Enzyme–driven bioremediation
8. Future perspective of bioremediation in PIWW treatment
9. Conclusions
Chapter 4. Hybrid membrane processes equipped with crystallization unit for a simultaneous recovery of freshwater and minerals from saline wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Principles of membrane crystallization
3. Membranes used in membrane crystallization
4. Fouling and wetting in membrane crystallization
5. Fouling and wetting mitigation strategies
6. Application of membrane crystallization for the treatment of wastewater
7. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Advanced (nano)materials
1. Introduction
2. Green nanotechnology
3. Green nanomaterial preparation
4. Chemical method
5. Biological method
6. Biosynthesis of NPs using microorganisms
7. Synthesis of nanoparticles using yeast
8. Synthesis of nanoparticles using bacteria
9. Synthesis of nanoparticles using actinomycetes
10. Synthesis of nanoparticles using plant
11. Applications of green nanomaterials
12. Environmental cleanup
13. Nanoremediation
14. Nanomaterials as adsorbents for water treatment
15. Nanomaterials in photocatalysis
16. Copper oxide in photocatalysis
17. Nanosized iron oxides
18. Magnesium oxide NPs (MgO-NPs)
19. Nanocomposites in water treatment
20. Nanocomposite membrane
21. Magnetic nanocomposites
22. Chitosan NPs
23. Cellulose based nanoadsorbent
24. Dendrimer nanoadsorbent
25. Major problems in photocatalysis processes
26. Reusability of nanocomposites
27. Disinfection
28. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater using activated sludge process
1. Introduction
2. Major units of activated sludge process based wastewater treatment
3. Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants by activated sludge process
4. Removal process in ASP for pharmaceuticals
5. Techniques to enhance elimination of pharmaceutical in ASP
6. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Bacteria mediated cadmium removal for wastewater treatment
1. Introduction
2. Cadmium toxicity
3. Conventional methods of cadmium removal
4. Bacteria mediated cadmium removal
5. Conclusions and future perspectives
Chapter 8. Oxidation and advanced oxidation processes in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment
1. Introduction
2. Organic contaminants in waste water
3. Oxidation processes
4. Advance oxidation processes
5. Principle and types of AOP
6. Mechanism of AOPs
7. Advanced AOPs catalyzed by hydrogen peroxide
8. AOPs using UV radiation
9. Strategies for efficient optimization of AOPs
10. Merits of AOPs
11. Limitations of AOPs
12. Studies on AOPs for waste water treatment
13. Conclusion and future trend
Chapter 9. Nanomaterials for the removal of pollutants from pharmaceutical wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Physio-chemical properties of pharmaceutical pollutants
3. Toxicological impact of pharmaceutical pollutants on ecosystem
4. Synthesis techniques of nanostructure materials
5. Mechanism behind the removal of contaminates by nanomaterials
6. Application of nanomaterials for the removal of pharmaceuticals
7. Limitations
8. Conclusion and prospects
Chapter 10. Bio nanotechnology: An emerging tools to remove refractory pollutant from pharmaceutical wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Methods for treatment of pharmaceutical waste water
3. Nanotechnology
4. Synthesis of nanoparticles
5. Bacteria-generated nanoparticles
6. Yeast and fungal nanoparticles
7. Nanotechnology for bioremediation
8. Different nanomaterials and treatment of pharmaceutical waste water
9. Nanofilter membrane bioreactor
10. Nanoadsorbants
11. Nanocatalyst
12. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Bioremediation of pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater by mushrooms
1. Introduction
2. Pharmaceutical residues
3. Wastewater treatment
4. Mushrooms in bioremediation of pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater
5. Perspectives and conclusions
Chapter 12. Microbial bioremediation potentials for refractory pollutants removal from pharmaceutical wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Nature and origin of pharmaceutical wastes
3. Bioremediation in treatment of pharmaceutical wastes
4. Future prospects and conclusion
Chapter 13. Innovative technologies for emerging issues in pharmaceuticals
1. Introduction
2. State of the art on the occurrence of pharmaceuticals all over the world
3. New emerging technologies for the removal of pharmaceuticals from the environment
4. Innovative methods to the monitoring and detection of pharmaceuticals
5. Challenges and future perspectives
Chapter 14. A study of advanced oxidation processes for the removal of refractory pollutants from pharmaceutical wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment
3. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Bioremediation of pharmaceutical waste waters
1. Background
2. Pharmaceuticals as pollutants
3. Characteristics of pharmaceutical waste water
4. Bioremediation methods
5. Bioreactor design
6. Factors affecting bioremediation
7. Future scope and limitations of bioremediation methods
8. Conclusion
Chapter 16. Biological elements as important tools in the detection/monitoring of drug compounds in organic and environmental samples
1. Introduction
2. Commonly used pharmaceuticals and their effects
3. Biosensors and their classification
4. Enzyme-based biosensors
5. Whole cell-based biosensors
6. General characteristics of biosensors
7. Current limitations of biosensor development
8. Conclusion and direction for future research
Chapter 17. Nanotechnology in wastewater management: Pharmaceuticals of emerging concern
1. Introduction
2. Categories of chemicals of emerging concern
3. Emerging contaminants
4. The toxicology of contaminants of emerging concerns
5. Removal of pharmaceuticals from water
6. Nanotechnology in wastewater management
7. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Nano-adsorbent based solutions for wastewater treatment—an overview
1. Introduction
2. Wastewater: Sources and composition
3. Nanotechnology and nanoadsorbents
4. Adsorption overview of the nanoadsorbents
5. Application of nano adsorbents in wastewater treatment
6. Limitations and recommendations
7. Conclusion
Index

Maulin P. Shah

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.

Affiliations and expertise

Environmental Microbiology Consultant, Gujarat, India

Susana Rodriguez-Couto

Susana Rodríguez-Couto (female) got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. In March 2021 she is joining LUT School of Engineering Science at Mikkeli, Finland, as a Full Professor in biological water treatment. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.

Affiliations and expertise

Full Professor (Biological Water Treatment), Department of Separation Science, LUT School of Engineering Science, LUT University, Finland

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