Abstract
Water is an essential resource for the livelihood of humans and animals. Due to population growth that impacts directly on the expansion of industries. Industrial growth also requires water which in the process produces highly polluted effluents that require treatment to prevent the pollution of the environment. Pollutants maybe materials from personal care products, pharmaceuticals, organic dyes, and pesticides. Part of the effluents find their way into conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) which should further treat them before the effluent can be either purified for drinking purposes or passed out into a nearby river. For the purposes of this work, pesticides (atrazine and tebuthiuron) were of interest. Wastewater treatment plants have been reported in literature to be unable to completely degrade pesticides which have been reported as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs)...
Ph.D. (Chemistry)