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A Review of Micropollutant Removal by Microalgae

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Various types of medicines, including nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and quinolone antibiotics, have been used to treat infections caused by microorganisms. Consequently, most of these medicines, undigested, and with their metabolic intermediates, are released through excretion into the ecosystem. In addition, hormones, especially steroid hormones, are observed in the ecosystem, which because of their long-term persistence (even at trace levels) in the environmental surroundings might pose a risk to living systems. Hence, various research groups have studied the fate of such contaminants. To avoid the high risk of micropollutants, various remediation techniques have been proposed to remove such contaminants from the environment. One of these methods is removal of the contaminant(s) by microalgae. In this book chapter, we briefly summarize the occurrence of some of these microcontaminants in the ecosystem and their detoxification as well as elimination by microalgae (alone or combination with other processes), as reported in the published literature.

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Mulla, S.I. et al. (2019). A Review of Micropollutant Removal by Microalgae. In: Gupta, S.K., Bux, F. (eds) Application of Microalgae in Wastewater Treatment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13913-1_3

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