Biodegradation of natural and synthetic endocrine-disrupting chemicals by aerobic granular sludge reactor: Evaluating estrogenic activity and estrogens fate

Development of an HPLC-DAD method for the simultaneous analysis of four xenoestrogens in water and its application for monitoring photocatalytic degradation

“…In literature, different HPLC methods have been developed and validated for the analysis of xenoestrogens in water. Among them, HPLC with electrochemical detection [10] , HPLC with fluorescence detection [ 11 , 12 ], and HPLC-DAD [13] , were applied for monitoring xenoestrogens during degradation processes in water [ 11 , 13 ]. However, it is worth noting that these methods employed the solid phase extraction (SPE) technique as a preconcentration step, with the drawback of increasing the costs and time of sample preparation for the analysis.…”

Electrospun polyurethane nanofibers coated with polyaniline/polyvinyl alcohol as ultrafiltration membranes for the removal of ethinylestradiol hormone micropollutant from aqueous phase

“…To address this problem, several strategies have been implemented to remediate this hormone EE2 as a micropollutant alongside other related environmentally persistent toxicants. Different treatment techniques such as biological degradation, advanced oxidation process, catalytic reduction, photocatalysis, and adsorption method have been investigated [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Out of these methods, the elimination of EDCs by adsorption process has proven to be more beneficial due to low concentration target compounds, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness [20].…”