Dear Pratik,

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) represent pollutants of emerging concern, originating in surface and drinking waters largely from their persistence in wastewater effluent. Accordingly, a wealth of recent investigations has examined PPCP fate during wastewater treatment, focusing on their removal during conventional (e.g., activated sludge) and advanced (e.g., ozonation and membrane filtration) treatment processes.  sources pertaining to influent and effluent PPCP concentrations measured at pilot- and full-scale wastewater treatment facilities to identify the most effective series of technologies for minimizing effluent PPCP levels. 

Regards,

Prem Baboo

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Yes, microalgae are known to be pollutant scavengers for a broad category of chemicals originating from the domestic, industrial and agricultural sectors as well as  from Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products ((PPCPs).

Hope this helps answer your question.

Professor Yehia Khalil

Yale University

USA

Literature evidences contradict with the notion that microalgal systems are well-known regarding trace organic pollutants removal (see e.g., the review by Norvill et al., 2016 - Journal of Hazardous Materials 313 (2016) 291–309).

Importantly, the Norvill et al. (2016) conclude that only at very long HRT could algal ponds allow removal mechanisms with comparably slow removal kinetics to become significant, compared to bacteria-based (e.g., activated sludge) processes.

This review paper also offers a set of potential future research goals.

I would recommend to consider those when planning new research.

Good luck, Benedek

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