Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle

Foreword.- Scope Of The Book.- Part 1: Occurrence Concentrations, Sources And Fluxes Of Xenobiotics In Urban Waters.- Quantitative Mass Flows Of Selected Xenobiotics In Urban Waters And Waste Water Treatment Plants.- Identifying And Classifying The Sources And Uses Of Xenobiotics In Urban Environments.- Illicit Drugs In The Urban Water Cycle.- Precious Metals In Urban Aquatic Systems: Platinum, Palladium And Rhodium-Sources, Occurrence, Bioavailability And Effects.- Fate And Effects Of Little Investigated Scents In The Aquatic Environment.- Sources And Occurrence Of Cyanotoxins Worldwide.- Occurrence And Measurements Of Organic Xenobiotic Compounds In Harbor And Coastal Sediments.-Determination Of Sources And Emissions Of Persistent Organic Contaminants By Means Of Sewage Sludge From A Monitoring Network.- Part 2: Fate, Effects And Risks Of Xenobiotics In Urban Waters.- Metabolic And Cometabolic Degradation Of Industrially Important Chlorinated Organics Under Aerobic Conditions.- Photochemical Transformation Of Pharmaceuticals In The Aquatic Environment: Reaction Pathways And Intermediates.- The Challenge Of The Identification And Quantification Of Transformation Products In The Aquatic Environment Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry.- Transport And Fate Of Xenobiotics In The Urban Water Cycle: Studies In Halle/Saale And Leipzig (Germany).- Pharmaceutical Contaminants In Urban Water Cycles-A Discussion Of Novel Concepts For Environmental Risk Assessment.- Hydroxy Benzoate Preservatives (Parabens) In The Environment: Data For Environmental Toxicity Assessment.- Part 3: Treatment Methods.- Efficiency Of Removal Of Compounds With Estrogenic Activity During Wastewater Treatment - Effects Of Various Removal Techniques.- Criteria For Designing Sewage Treatment Plants For Enhanced Removal Of Organic Micropollutants.- Xenobiotics Removal By Membrane Technology: An Overview.- Membrane Bioreactors: A Cost-Effective Solution To Enhance The Removal Of Xenobiotics FromUrban

Despo Fatta-Kassinos received her Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and her M.Sc. in Environmental Management from the European Association for Environmental Management and Education (University of Athens, Greece - Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy). She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She is a faculty member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Cyprus since 2003. She is the head of GAIA, Laboratory of Environmental Engineering where a number of scientific projects related to the treatment of xenobiotic compounds in aqueous matrices are being realised. She is a reviewer for several national and European funding bodies. Her principal research interests are in the field of water and wastewater treatment systems, monitoring of environmental pollution and environmental risk assessment. The main focus of her researchis the development of advanced oxidation and other combined processes for the treatment of wastewater intended for reuse applications.