1st Edition

Advanced Materials for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

Edited By P.V. Nidheesh, Aydin Hassani Copyright 2025
351 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

351 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

351 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Effluents generated from the pharmaceutical industry contain organic and inorganic contaminants that create potential threats to human health and the environment. Pharmaceuticals cannot be effectively removed by conventional wastewater treatment plants owing to the complex composition, high concentration of organic contaminants, high salinity, and biological toxicity of pharmaceutical wastewater.... Read more

1. Pharmaceuticals: Types and Production

Zahra Sayyar and Aydin Hassani

2. Pharmaceutical Residues: Environmental Impacts, Guidelines, and Remediation in Various Environmental Matrices

Afzal Husain Khan

3. Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Adsorbents for Pharmaceutical Removal

Fatima Ezzahra Titchou and Mohamed Hamdani

4. Magnetic Adsorbents for the Removal of Pharmaceutical Contaminants

Vijayasri K. and Ajaya Kumar Singh

5. Layered Double Hydroxide Adsorbents for Pharmaceutical Removal

Karina Nava-Andrade and Santiago José Guevara-Martínez

6. Carbon Materials as Adsorbents and Catalysts

Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo, Ezinne Favour Ogulewe, Hoda Ansari, Abimbola Aleshinloye, and Mustafa Gazi

7. Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH)-Based Materials Applied in Advanced Photocatalytic Oxidation of Pharmaceuticals

Aydin Hassani, Paria Eghbali, and Farshid Ghanbari

8. Transition Metal Carbide and Nitride (MXene)-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

Nahid Amini-Seresht and Mohsen Sheydaei

9. Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

Venkateshwaran Gopal and Ambika Selvaraj

10. Polymer-Based Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

Nurul Izzati Izhar, Zul Adlan Mohd Hir, Nurul Syarima Nadia Sazman, Nur Ramadhan Mohamad Azaludin, Shaari Daud, and Hartini Ahmad Rafaie

11. Carbon Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

Abdoulaye Thiam and Christian Onfray

12. Metallic Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Removal: Electrocoagulation and Electrooxidation

Farshid Ghanbari, Ali Yaghoot-Nezhad, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, and Aydin Hassani

13. Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes for Pharmaceutical Removal

Letícia G.A. Costa, Letícia Milena Gomes da Silva, José Eudes L. Santos, Tabata Natasha Feijoó Zambrano, Amanda D. Gondim, Lívia N. Cavalcanti, Elisama Vieira dos Santos, and Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle

Biography

P.V. Nidheesh is a principal scientist at CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, India.

Aydin Hassani is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Engineering at Near East University, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.