书目名称 | Psychiatric Pharmaceuticals as Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater |
编辑 | Bruna Silva,Filomena Costa,Teresa Tavares |
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概述 | Aimed at water pollution and pharmaceutical researchers and non-experts alike.Details the mechanisms of action at work from water source to host.Includes topical content on the potential risks to and |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science |
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描述 | .This book describes how psychiatric pharmaceuticals, namely antidepressants, anxiolytics, sedatives and hypnotics are among the most prescribed active substances due to the higher occurrence of psychiatric disorders throughout the world. It goes on to demonstrate how patients’ excretion of the active compounds along with several metabolites is considered to be the main pathway for the occurrence of these emerging pollutants in wastewater treatment plant effluents, surface and drinking water, soils and sediments. Further chapters are devoted to an exploration of these pharmaceuticals’ high persistence, toxicity and intrinsic biological activity, which can affect the nervous and endocrine systems of terrestrial and aquatic non-target organisms, the dissemination of these compounds in environment matrices and the growing number of associated problems and concerns. The remainder of the book describes how conventional wastewater treatment processes are generally inefficient when it comes to the removal of this type of pollutants, giving rise to the demand for implementing alternative or complementary treatment technologies. Extensive research studies on the efficiency of the degradatio |
出版日期 | Book 2015 |
关键词 | Environment drugs effluent; Psychiatric pharmaceuticals impact; Removal of drugs from drinking water; T |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20493-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-20492-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-20493-2Series ISSN 2191-5407 Series E-ISSN 2191-5415 |
issn_series | 2191-5407 |
copyright | The Author(s) 2015 |