Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Mass Flows, Environmental Processes, Mitigation and Treatment Strategies

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Quantitative Mass Flows of Selected Xenobiotics in Urban Waters and Waste Water Treatment Plants....Pages 3-26
Identifying and Classifying the Sources and Uses of Xenobiotics in Urban Environments....Pages 27-50
Illicit Drugs in the Urban Water Cycle....Pages 51-71
Precious Metals in Urban Aquatic Systems: Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium: Sources, Occurrence, Bioavailability and Effects....Pages 73-86
Fate and Effects of Little Investigated Scents in the Aquatic Environment....Pages 87-100
Sources and Occurrence of Cyanotoxins Worldwide....Pages 101-127
Occurrence and Measurements of Organic Xenobiotic Compounds in Harbour and Coastal Sediments....Pages 129-145
Determination of Sources and Emissions of Persistent Organic Contaminants by Means of Sewage Sludge: Results from a Monitoring Network....Pages 147-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Metabolic and Co-metabolic Degradation of Industrially Important Chlorinated Organics Under Aerobic Conditions....Pages 161-178
Photochemical Transformation of Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment: Reaction Pathways and Intermediates....Pages 179-194
The Challenge of the Identification and Quantification of Transformation Products in the Aquatic Environment Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry....Pages 195-211
Transport and Fate of Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Studies in Halle/Saale and Leipzig (Germany)....Pages 213-226
Pharmaceutical Contaminants in Urban Water Cycles: A Discussion of Novel Concepts for Environmental Risk Assessment....Pages 227-243
Hydroxy Benzoate Preservatives (Parabens) in the Environment: Data for Environmental Toxicity Assessment....Pages 245-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Efficiency of Removal of Compounds with Estrogenic Activity During Wastewater Treatment: Effects of Various Removal Techniques....Pages 261-282
Criteria for Designing Sewage Treatment Plants for Enhanced Removal of Organic Micropollutants....Pages 283-306
Xenobiotics Removal by Membrane Technology: An Overview....Pages 307-338
Membrane BioReactors: A Cost-Effective Solution to Enhance the Removal of Xenobiotics from Urban Wastewaters?....Pages 339-354
Removal of Xenobiotics from Wastewater in Sequencing Batch Reactors: Conventional and Two-Phase Configurations....Pages 355-374
Fate and Occurrence of Surfactants-Derived Alkylphenolic Compounds in Conventional and Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Wastewater Treatment Plants....Pages 375-385
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Removal of Xenobiotic Compounds from Water and Wastewater by Advanced Oxidation Processes....Pages 387-412
Biological, Chemical and Photochemical Treatment of Commercially Important Naphthalene Sulphonates....Pages 413-430
Uptake of Xenobiotics from Polluted Waters by Plants....Pages 431-444
Treatment Techniques and Analysis of Stormwater Run-off from Roads in Hamburg, Germany....Pages 445-461
Front Matter....Pages 463-463
Options for Mitigation: An Overview of Measures....Pages 465-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
Outlook....Pages 483-485
Erratum to: Chapter 12 Transport and Fate of Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Studies in Halle/Saale and Leipzig (Germany)....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 487-507