Search

Browse

• Communities
• Authors
• Year
• Titles
• Subjects

My Space

• Login

Photochemical treatment methods for the degradation of antidepressants in aqueous matrices

Potsiou Charoula

Full record

---

Summary

During the last decades, human population growth and progress have increased the pharmaceutical contamination of the environment. Active pharmaceutical ingredients are stable in water matrices and are not fully degraded by standard treatment processes. The existence of pharmaceutical drugs and pharmaceutically active metabolites in the environment has been considered one of the emerging concerns in environmental sciences. These substances are referred to as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), as they appear to have consequences on aquatic organisms. Many articles have been published regarding the presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment until now. A group of pharmaceuticals with an increasing presence in the environment is antidepressants. The present diploma thesis attempts to review the presence and impact of antidepressantpharmaceuticals in environmental matrices and non-target organisms, as well as different methods to remove them based on UV radiation. The literature used, consisted of scientific papers published in the last decade. This project was focused on the degradation methods, mostly the Advanced OxidationProcesses based on UV radiation. Lastly, an effort to evaluate the efficiency of these processes was made.

Available Files

Services