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Bioremediation of Hormones from Waste Water

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Over the years, there have been many methods proposed for the treatment of pharmaceutical wastes. Pharmaceutical wastewater has been difficult to treat as they comprise of chemicals and drugs such as antibiotics, hormones, antidepressants, anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics, lipid regulators, animal and plant steroids, diuretics, antiepileptics. These hazardous substances discharged from manufacturing industries and hospitals have to be removed or transformed to nontoxic substance before they are released by the manufacturing facility or hospitals. Conventional method of wastewater treatment will not be sufficient for complete degradation of these compounds; therefore, physical and chemical methods along with detailed biological methods will form the basis for complete removal of pharmaceutical compounds. Bioremediation is the cheapest and most eco-friendly method for wastewater treatment. It involves the usage of various microorganisms for degrading the complex compounds to simpler compounds. Bioremediation under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, depending on the organic compounds present in the effluents, can be applied.

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    Anushree Suresh & Jayanthi Abraham

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Suresh, A., Abraham, J. (2018). Bioremediation of Hormones from Waste Water. In: Hussain, C. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Materials Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_104-1

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