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Removal of Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds by Wastewater Treatment

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Advanced Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation of Water

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Endocrine disruptors are toxic substances having adverse effects on the endocrine system even in very fewer amounts which appeared to be a serious concern for human health and water quality. EDCs (Endocrine disrupting compounds) behave like natural hormones in human beings that cause an interruption in endogenous hormonal activities like decreased fertility, changed sexual behavior, inflate abnormalities, and cancers in humans or animals. There are growing concerns about the effects of EDCs on drinking water or human health which are the key environmental problems worldwide. They can be removed from wastewater by many methods such as absorption, adsorption, oxidation, chemical degradation, photocatalytic degradation, membrane separation, biological degradation, transformation, and volatilization. The toxic effect of some EDCs is not fully known and needs further investigations. Detailed treatment methodology for each process is discussed for a better understanding of the scientific community for mitigation and handling these EDCs. The effect of influential operational parameters on the eradication of EDCs from aqueous media via various processes has been highlighted. Finally, the future perspective of the various water treatment techniques along with the key challenges to be faced by the next generation researchers towards expulsion of EDCs is discussed.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-32, India

    Gargi Sinha Sarkar

  2. School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India

    Aanchal Rathi, Soumen Basu & Sanghamitra Barman

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

    R. K. Arya

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

    G. N. Halder

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Sarkar, G.S., Rathi, A., Basu, S., Arya, R.K., Halder, G.N., Barman, S. (2022). Removal of Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds by Wastewater Treatment. In: Roy, S., Garg, A., Garg, S., Tran, T.A. (eds) Advanced Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation of Water. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83811-9_7

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