Effects of emerging chemical contaminants on water resources and environmental health

""This book explores current issues dealing with the occurrence, toxicology, and abatement of emerging contaminants. It also examines new technologies and developments in sample preparation and detection of contaminants in water resources."--

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Shikuku, Victor, 1986- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey, PA : IGI Global, [2020]
SeriesAdvances in environmental engineering and green technologies (AEEGT) book series.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN179981873X
9781799818731
9781799818717
9781799818724
1523128852
9781523128853
9781799818748
1799818748
1799818713
1799818721
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 339 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Chemicals of emerging concern in surface and wastewater: a perspective of their fate within the Lake Victoria catchment area of Kenya
  • Chapter 2. Occurrence and impact of emerging contaminants in Nigeria's freshwater resources
  • Chapter 3. Microplastics as emerging contaminants: occurrence, toxicology, and analysis
  • Chapter 4. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds as emerging water pollutants: toxicological aspects of phenanthrene on aquatic animals
  • Chapter 5. Analytical perspectives on emerging organic contaminants in the aquatic ecosystem
  • Chapter 6. Technological developments in the determination of emerging contaminants in water
  • Chapter 7. Semiconductor nanocomposites-based photoelectrochemical aptamer sensors for pharmaceuticals detection
  • Chapter 8. Electrochemical treatment of wastewater: an emerging technology for emerging pollutants
  • Chapter 9. Use of low cost materials to remove chemicals of emerging concern from wastewater effluents
  • Chapter 10. Emerging contaminants: pollution control and abatement
  • Chapter 11. Kinetics of heavy metals adsorption on gravels derived from subsurface flow constructed wetland
  • Chapter 12. Evaluation of selected reaeration models for water quality management
  • Chapter 13. Fabrication of metal oxide-biopolymer nanocomposite for water defluoridation.