Advances in Remediation Methods of Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Water
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 972
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental pollutants; pharmaceutical analysis; drug metabolism; mass spectrometry; photodegradation; electrochemical oxidation
Interests: photodegradation; electrochemical oxidation; AOPs; PPCPs pollution; ecotoxicology; xenobiotic metabolism; mass spectrometry
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Dear Colleagues,
Pharmaceuticals currently represent one of the main groups of organic pollutants in surface waters and particularly in rivers. This situation is influenced by the growing consumption of medicines by humans, their increasingly widespread use in veterinary medicine as well as agriculture, and their improper disposal.
At the same time, the conventional wastewater treatment methods currently in use are not very effective, and most pharmaceuticals, either in their unchanged form or as secondary metabolites and degradation products, enter the natural environment, where they can impact non-target organisms.
For this reason, there is an urgent need to develop high-efficiency, safe, and cost-effective modern methods for removing pharmaceuticals from water.
Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on the application of advanced methods for the purification of water and wastewater from pharmaceuticals, particularly, but not exclusively, using photochemical and electrochemical techniques. Papers discussing structural identification of the formed transformation products, as well as their toxic properties, are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Robert Skibiński
Dr. Jakub Trawiński
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug pollutants
- advanced oxidation processes
- water treatment
- electrochemical methods
- photodegradation
- degradation pathways
- mineralization
- toxicity assessment
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