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0000-0002-4677-5309
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University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Durban University of Technology
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Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 24-09-2020
DOI: 10.3390/W12102680
Abstract: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is currently posing a significant threat to the world’s public health and social-economic growth. Despite the rigorous international lockdown and quarantine efforts, the rate of COVID-19 infectious cases remains exceptionally high. Notwithstanding, the end route of COVID-19, together with emerging contaminants’ (antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, nanoplastics, pesticide, etc.) occurrence in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), poses a great challenge in wastewater settings. Therefore, this paper seeks to review an inter-disciplinary and technological approach as a roadmap for the water and wastewater settings to help fight COVID-19 and future waves of pandemics. This study explored wastewater–based epidemiology (WBE) potential for detecting SARS-CoV-2 and its metabolites in wastewater settings. Furthermore, the prospects of integrating innovative and robust technologies such as magnetic nanotechnology, advanced oxidation process, biosensors, and membrane bioreactors into the WWTPs to augment the risk of COVID-19’s environmental impacts and improve water quality are discussed. In terms of the diagnostics of COVID-19, potential biosensors such as s le–answer chip-, paper- and nanomaterials-based biosensors are highlighted. In conclusion, sewage treatment systems, together with magnetic biosensor diagnostics and WBE, could be a possible way to keep a surveillance on the outbreak of COVID-19 in communities around the globe, thereby identifying hotspots and curbing the diagnostic costs of testing. Photocatalysis prospects are high to inactivate coronavirus, and therefore a focus on safe nanotechnology and bioengineering should be encouraged.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 06-07-2022
DOI: 10.3390/APP12146840
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-08-2022
DOI: 10.1002/BBB.2409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-12-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 25-10-2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 16-08-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 08-02-2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 29-11-2022
DOI: 10.3390/APP122312212
Abstract: The demand for technological and industrial change has become heavily dependent on the availability and use of petroleum products as a source of energy for socio-economic development. Notwithstanding, petroleum and petrochemical products are strongly related to global economic activities, and their extensive distribution, refining processes, and final routes into the environment pose a threat to human health and the ecosystem. Additional global environmental challenges related to the toxicological impact of air, soil, and water pollutants from hydrocarbons are carcinogenic to animals and humans. Therefore, it is practical to introduce biodegradation as a biological catalyst to address the remediation of petroleum-contaminated ecosystems, adverse impacts, the complexity of hydrocarbons, and resistance to biodegradation. This review presents the bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants in water and soil, focusing on petroleum biodegradable microorganisms essential for the biodegradation of petroleum contaminants. Moreover, explore the mineralization and transformation of complex organic and inorganic contaminants into other simpler compounds by biological agents. In addition, physicochemical and biological factors affecting biodegradation mechanisms and enzymatic systems are expanded. Finally, recent studies on bioremediation techniques with economic prospects for petroleum spill remediation are highlighted.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 24-11-2022
DOI: 10.3390/APP122312037
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 09-08-2022
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-10-2022
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 10-12-2021
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