Advanced Oxidation Process-based Integrated and Hybrid Technologies for Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products addresses PPCP removal from wastewater by the recent application of AOP-based hybrid techniques. Technological advancement of AOPs and AOP-based hybrid methods are discussed and will highlight the perspectives on fundamental and technological advancements in AOP and AOP-based hybrid methods for PPCPs removal from wastewater. A detailed cost analysis of different AOP-based hybrid techniques is examined to help readers formulate guidelines to transform the wastewater treatment process from lab scale to pilot/industrial scale.
Table of Contents
1. Pharmaceuticals and Personal care Products as Contaminants of Emerging Concern, sources, nature and possible health effects 2. Recent advances and innovation in the application of AOPs for Pharmaceuticals and Personal care Products degradation 3. Recent advances in the use of biological treatment methods for PPCPs degradation from water and wastewater 4. AOP based hospital wastewater treatments: current status and future perspectives 5. Adsorption systems for the PPCPs removal from wastewater 6. Membrane systems for the PPCPs removal from wastewater 7. Ultrasound-assisted degradation of PPCPs from wastewater 8. Hybrid treatment technologies for PPCPs degradation from industrial wastewater: evaluation and challenges 9. Adsorption-Membrane hybrid system for pharmaceutical degradation 10. Advanced materials for the removal of PPCPs from real wastewater 11. Design approach for sustainable integrated and hybrid wastewater techniques 12. PPCPs in wastewater: Kinetics and Thermodynamic analysis 13. AOP-Membrane bioreactor hybrid approach for the removal of PPCPs 14. Antibiotics degradation by AOP-based hybrid methods. 15. Removal of PPCPs using integrated Adsorption/AOP systems 16. Integrated and Hybrid AOP-Membrane systems for PPCPs degradation 17. Membrane fouling Control using integrated AOP-membrane systems 18. Integrated and Hybrid AOP-Biological systems for PPCPs degradation 19. Electrochemical-based hybrid methods for the treatment of PPCPs in drinking water 20. Cost Estimation and Energy consumption of AOPs and AOP-based integrated and hybrid systems 21. Low-cost Materials in the Photocatalytic Treatment of PPCPs 22. Nanomaterials integrated hybrid treatments of PPCPs 23. Sustainable herbal pharmaceutical wastewater treatment with energy recovery 24. Water and Wastewater resources management in the pharmaceutical industries 25. Recent advancements in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment: A Techno-Economic and environmental feasibility 26. Future prospect and concluding remarks
Authors
Amit K. Thakur Associate Professor, Energy Cluster, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.
Dr. Amit K. Thakur received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri, Dhanbad, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and Ph. D (Chemical Engineering) from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has total 12 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 25 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and participated in many conferences, workshops, and training programs. He has 1 patent granted by the government of India. He is reviewer of many journals such as, Separation science and Technology, Powder Technology, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Particuology, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, etc. His research interest includes Advanced oxidation process, Pharmaceuticals, and personal care products (PPCPs) degradation, multi-scale modeling & optimization and Pharmaceutical Crystallization. He has published several chapters with Springer, Elsevier and Nova Science, USA, edited books.
Rahul Kumar Associate Professor, Energy Cluster, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.
Dr. Rahul Kumar received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jhansi, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and Ph. D (Chemical Engineering) from Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has total 12 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 20 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and participated in many conferences, workshops, and training programs. His research interest includes Environmental science, pharmaceutical degradation, multi-scale modeling & optimization and Pharmaceutical Crystallization. He has published many chapters with Springer Nature.
Nadeem A Khan Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Mewat Engineering College, Nuh, Haryana, India.
Dr. Nadeem A Khan is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Mewat Engineering College, in India. Previously he was Head of Department from 2014 to 2017. He completed his Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia University in 2022. He received his M.Tech. (Civil Engineering) with honours in Environmental Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 2011. He has acted as an editorial board member for Nature on Scientific Reports and worked with Springer on a special issue in the Discover Water Journal. He was awarded the Best Young Scientist Award (Male) by LWT India and GECL for his Scientific contribution to Environmental Engineering. He has published four books with international publishers, 64 papers in SCI journals, and has also published more than 10 PATENTS in civil Engineering and water treatment.
Afzal Husain Khan Department of Civil Engineering, Jazan University, Saudia Arabia.
He is currently working in Civil Engineering Department, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. He has more than 11 years of teaching and research experience. He has >60 peer-reviewed publications, 1 book (edited), 6 patents and 5 book chapters to his credit. He is a guest Editor in 'Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, and 'Frontiers in Sustainability. He is a reviewer in reputed journals such as Journal of Molecular Liquids, Chemosphere, Journal of Water Processing Engineering, Waste Management, Separation and Purification Technology, etc. His work on Advanced Oxidation Process was published in Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Water Process Engineering and Trends in Analytical Chemistry.
Ravi Shankar Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dr. Ravi Shankar received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri, Dhanbad, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He has total 09 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience. He has published more than 35 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. Presently he is supervising 07 Ph.D. students from different disciplines. His current research is related to Advanced Oxidation Process (Electrocoagulation), Microbial Fuel Cell, Heat Transfer, and Biofuel. He has published more than 10 book chapters in Springer, Elsevier and Nova Science, USA, edited books.
Md. Nahid Pervez Researcher, Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy.
Dr. Md. Nahid Pervez is a research fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno (Italy), where he drives research activities at the Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED). Dr. Pervez received his BSc degree in Textile Engineering (2014) at the Southeast University (Bangladesh) under the supervision of Prof Syed Fakhrul Hassan. After that, he secured Color Root (Hubei) Scholarship to pursue his MSc studies in Textile Engineering at the Wuhan Textile University (China) in 2016. Then he received his Ph.D. from the University of Salerno (Italy) in 2022. His research focuses on wastewater treatment, resource recovery, sustainable textiles, and process modelling. Dr. Pervez is the Topical Advisory Panel Member of Sustainability. He serves as Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Sustainability and Review Editor for Frontiers in Water.
