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ReviewJournal of water process engineering2022

A critical review on the existing wastewater treatment methods in the COVID-19 era: What is the potential of advanced oxidation processes in combatting viral especially SARS-CoV-2?

Milad Mousazadeh, Işık Kabdaşlı, Sara Khademi, Miguel Angel Sandoval, Seyedeh Parvin Moussavi, Fatemeh Malekdar, Vishakha Gilhotra, Marjan Hashemi, Mohammad Hadi Dehghani

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Review in Journal of water process engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 8 institutions in 6 countries.

Milad MousazadehSocial Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.
Işık Kabdaşlıİstanbul Technical University, Civil Engineering Faculty, Environmental Engineering Department, Ayazağa Campus, 34469 Maslak, İstanbul, Turkey.
Sara KhademiHealth, Safety, and Environment Specialist, North Drilling Company, Ahvaz, Iran.
Miguel Angel SandovalUniversidad de Santiago de Chile USACH, Facultad de Química y Biología, Departamento de Química de los Materiales, Laboratorio de Electroquímica Medio Ambiental, LEQMA, Casilla 40, Correo 33, Santiago, Chile.
Seyedeh Parvin MoussaviDepartment of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Fatemeh MalekdarDepartment of Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine Production, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Karaj, Iran.
Vishakha GilhotraDepartment of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
Marjan HashemiEnvironmental and Occupational Hazards Control Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad Hadi DehghaniDepartment of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Guru Nanak Dev University · INIstanbul Technical University · TRQazvin University of Medical Sciences · IRRazi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRTehran University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversidad de Santiago de Chile · CLUniversity of Alberta · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic has put the risk of virus contamination in water bodies on the horizon of health authorities. Hence, finding effective ways to remove the virus, especially SARS-CoV-2, from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has emerged as a hot issue in the last few years. Herein, this study first deals with the fate of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in WWTPs, then critically reviews and compares different wastewater treatment methods for combatting COVID-19 as well as to increase the water quality. This critical review sheds light the efficiency of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) to inactivate virus, specially SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Although several physicochemical treatment processes (e.g. activated sludge) are commonly used to eliminate pathogens, AOPs are the most versatile and effective virus inactivation methods. For instance, TiO

Indexed as

Advanced oxidation processesSARS-CoV-2Sewerage transmissionWastewater treatment plants

Identifiers

PMID35990175
PMCPMC9381433
OpenAlexW4292259372

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