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Estradiol, also designed as 17- ? -estradiol, belongs to the pharmaceutical class of steroid estrogens and was included in the -Watch List- since 2013 the Directive 2013/39/EU due to its potential risk to human health and environment. The low removal efficiency of estrogens by the conventional wastewater treatment plants, becomes a major source of their release into different aquatic matrices. This work presents the optimization of an analytical methodology based on solid phase extraction and high-performance liqu...

Adsorption is a treatment process based on accumulation of the adsorbate (pollutant) on the adsorbent surface that has been successful used for the optimization of wastewater treatment plant effluents cleaning. This work will present the main experimental results for the removal of naproxen from water by adsorption using activated carbon obtained from olive stones. Four types of activated carbon material were prepared from olive stones. The batch method was applied to experimentally measure the equilibrium adsorpt...