Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: Waste Management and Treatment Technology
Emerging Contaminants and Micro Pollutants
- 1st Edition - April 5, 2019
- Latest edition
- Editors: Meththika Vithanage, Atya Kapley, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
- Language: English
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products Waste Management and Treatment Technology: Emerging Contaminants and Micro Pollutants provides the tools and techniques for identifyi… Read more
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products Waste Management and Treatment Technology: Emerging Contaminants and Micro Pollutants provides the tools and techniques for identifying these contaminates and applying the most effective technology for their remediation, recovery and treatment. The consumption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) has grown significantly over the last 35 years, thus increasing their potential risk to the environment. As PPCPs are very difficult to detect and remove using conventional wastewater treatment methods, this book provides solutions to a growing problem.
- Includes sampling, analytical and characterization methods and technology for detecting PPCPs in the environment
- Provides advanced treatment and disposal technologies for the removal of PPCPs from wastewater, surface water, landfills and septic systems
- Examines the pathways of PPCPs into the environment
Civil/Environmental Engineers and Environmental Scientists, Chemical Engineers, Material Science graduates, Microbiologists, Biologists and Ecologists
1. Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products [PPCP] contamination
2. PPCPs in drinking water
3. PPCPs in aquatic environment
4. PPCPs in terrestrial environment
5. Transformed products of PPCPs in environment
6. Strategies for removal of PPCP
7. Plant based technologies for removal of PPCP
8. PPCPs in different habitats
9. Uptake and accumulation of leafy vegetables
10. PPCP in non-food plants
11. Removal of PPCPs by periphyton
12. Techniques (Ozone and biofiltration) for removal of PPCP
13. Nanotech applications for removal of PPCPs
14. Removal of PPCP by aquatic macrophytes
15. Removal of PPCP from soil slurry
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 5, 2019
- Language: English
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Meththika Vithanage
Dr. Meththika Vithanage is a Professor in the Department of Geochemistry at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark. Her work centers on quantifying concentrations and reaction kinetics of key and emerging pollutants, including microplastics, and Persistent, Mobile and Toxic contaminants. She advances understanding of their environmental fate and transport and develops remediation strategies using innovative geo-, bio-, and nanomaterials.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, DenmarkMV
Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor and Former Dean, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, IndiaRead Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: Waste Management and Treatment Technology on ScienceDirect