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Estrogen removal through adsorption by carbon materials prepared from biomass wastes: A review
| Resumo: | Environmental impacts are an ever-growing concern in various industrial and economic sectors that produce wastes such as heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, surfactants, and petroleum derivatives. These substances can be classified as emerging pollutants due to their increasing concentration in water bodies and living beings. Since many of these substances can only be found in very low concentrations, in micrograms per liter ( g/L) or nanograms per liter (ng/L), they can also be classified as micropollutants. One type of micropollutant that has been especially concerning are endocrine disruptors, composed of natural hormones, such as estrone (estrogen E1) and 17 -estradiol (estrogen E2), and synthetic hormones, such as 17 -ethinylestradiol (estrogen EE2). Endocrine disruptors can deregulate the endocrine system of both humans and animals and, due to their nature as micropollutants, are not effectively removed by conventional processes in wastewater treatment plants. To establish a state-of-the-art in the particular field of alternative treatment methods based on adsorption, previous studies were selected with topics such as estrogen molecules removed, adsorbent activation type, adsorption capacity, and best fit for isotherm and kinetic models. Hence, a few relevant literature studies concerning biomass waste-based materials. |
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| Autores principais: | Exposto, Bruno Marques |
| Outros Autores: | Queiroz, Ana; Brito, Paulo; Ribeiro, António E. |
| Assunto: | Estrogen Biomass |
| Ano: | 2024 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | documento de conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Biblioteca Digital do IPB |
| Resumo: | Environmental impacts are an ever-growing concern in various industrial and economic sectors that produce wastes such as heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, surfactants, and petroleum derivatives. These substances can be classified as emerging pollutants due to their increasing concentration in water bodies and living beings. Since many of these substances can only be found in very low concentrations, in micrograms per liter ( g/L) or nanograms per liter (ng/L), they can also be classified as micropollutants. One type of micropollutant that has been especially concerning are endocrine disruptors, composed of natural hormones, such as estrone (estrogen E1) and 17 -estradiol (estrogen E2), and synthetic hormones, such as 17 -ethinylestradiol (estrogen EE2). Endocrine disruptors can deregulate the endocrine system of both humans and animals and, due to their nature as micropollutants, are not effectively removed by conventional processes in wastewater treatment plants. To establish a state-of-the-art in the particular field of alternative treatment methods based on adsorption, previous studies were selected with topics such as estrogen molecules removed, adsorbent activation type, adsorption capacity, and best fit for isotherm and kinetic models. Hence, a few relevant literature studies concerning biomass waste-based materials. |
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