Investigating the removal of some pharmaceutical compounds in hospital wastewater treatment plants operating in Saudi Arabia
- Submitting institution
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Abertay University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 17662379
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/s11356-016-6389-7
- Title of journal
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Article number
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- First page
- 13003
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 13
- ISSN
- 0944-1344
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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A - Engineering
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This article addresses the current technological challenges associated with the removal of persistent organic compounds (pollutants) in domestic wastewaters originating from healthcare products in current wastewater treatment systems. Full-scale treatment plants operating in a tropical climate and treating hospital-only wastewaters provided a good experimental unit to identify the limits of current aerobic treatment systems used worldwide. In mainly hospital-only wastewaters, the concentrations of these pollutants are bound to be higher and thus easier to measure than when found in conventional municipal wastewaters as collected in temperate countries, since the hospital wastewater is less diluted with wastewaters from the wider municipality.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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