TY - BOOK ID - 4865545 TI - Psychiatric Pharmaceuticals as Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater AU - Silva, Bruna. AU - Costa, Filomena. AU - Neves, Isabel C. AU - Tavares, Teresa. PY - 2015 SN - 9783319204932 3319204920 9783319204925 3319204939 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Chemistry. KW - Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering. KW - Water Quality/Water Pollution. KW - Environmental Chemistry. KW - Freshwater & Marine Ecology. KW - Drug Resistance. KW - Drug interactions. KW - Chemical engineering. KW - Aquatic biology. KW - Environmental chemistry. KW - Chimie KW - Médicaments KW - Génie chimique KW - Hydrobiologie KW - Chimie de l'environnement KW - Interaction KW - Chemical & Materials Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Chemical Engineering KW - Water-supply. KW - Emerging contaminants in water. KW - Emerging microbial contaminants in water KW - Emerging pollutants in water KW - Availability, Water KW - Water availability KW - Water resources KW - Water quality. KW - Water pollution. KW - Drug resistance. KW - Aquatic ecology. KW - Water KW - Natural resources KW - Public utilities KW - Water resources development KW - Water utilities KW - Pollution KW - Interactions, Drug KW - Drugs KW - Hydrobiology KW - Water biology KW - Aquatic sciences KW - Biology KW - Chemistry, Environmental KW - Chemistry KW - Ecology KW - Chemistry, Industrial KW - Engineering, Chemical KW - Industrial chemistry KW - Engineering KW - Chemistry, Technical KW - Metallurgy KW - Side effects KW - Aquatic ecology . KW - Resistance to drugs KW - Pharmacology KW - Aquatic biology KW - Aquatic pollution KW - Fresh water KW - Fresh water pollution KW - Freshwater pollution KW - Inland water pollution KW - Lake pollution KW - Lakes KW - Reservoirs KW - River pollution KW - Rivers KW - Stream pollution KW - Water contamination KW - Water pollutants KW - Water pollution KW - Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. KW - Freshwater KW - Freshwater quality KW - Marine water quality KW - Quality of water KW - Seawater KW - Seawater quality KW - Environmental quality KW - Quality KW - Composition KW - Pollution. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4865545 AB - This book describes how psychiatric pharmaceuticals, namely antidepressants, anxiolytics, sedatives and hypnotics are among the most prescribed active substances due to the higher occurrence of psychiatric disorders throughout the world. It goes on to demonstrate how patients’ excretion of the active compounds along with several metabolites is considered to be the main pathway for the occurrence of these emerging pollutants in wastewater treatment plant effluents, surface and drinking water, soils and sediments. Further chapters are devoted to an exploration of these pharmaceuticals’ high persistence, toxicity and intrinsic biological activity, which can affect the nervous and endocrine systems of terrestrial and aquatic non-target organisms, the dissemination of these compounds in environment matrices and the growing number of associated problems and concerns. The remainder of the book describes how conventional wastewater treatment processes are generally inefficient when it comes to the removal of this type of pollutants, giving rise to the demand for implementing alternative or complementary treatment technologies. Extensive research studies on the efficiency of the degradation and/or removal of these pollutants are summarized, and adsorption, membrane and advanced oxidation processes (AOP) are proposed. Given its content and structure, the book offers a concise summary of the most significant findings on psychiatric pharmaceutical removal in wastewater. ER -