Browsing by Author "Fatta-Kassinos, Despo"
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An alternative method for the treatment of waste produced at a dye and a metal-plating industry using natural and/or waste materials
Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Papadopoulos, A.; Stefanakis, N.; Loizidou, M.; Savvides, C. (2004)
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Anaerobic co-digestion of potato processing wastewater with pig slurry and abattoir wastewater [electronic resource]
Monou, Maria; Mantzavinos, D.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Smith, Stephen R.; Pafitis, Nicolas; Kythreotou, Nicoletta (2008)BACKGROUND: Small-scale experimental investigations were carried out on the anaerobic digestion of potato processing wastewater and its co-digestion with pig slurry and/or abattoir wastewater. A simple and rapid procedure ...
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Conference Object
Analysis of best practices and success stories for sustainable urban wastewater treatment and reuse in the agricultural production in the mediterranean countries
Barrio, D. H.; Irusta, R.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Papadopoulos, A.; Mentzis, A.; Loizidou, M. (2005)
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Analytical methods for tracing pharmaceutical residues in water and wastewater
Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Achilleos, A.; Nikolaou, A.; Meric, S. (2007)The focus of environmental analysis and determination of chemicals in the environment has recently been extended from the more classical pollutants to new contaminant categories including pharmaceuticals. This is attributed ...
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Applications of advanced oxidation processes in wastewater treatment
Mantzavinos, D.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Parsons, S. A. (2009)
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Assessing the accuracy of wall concentration estimation based on averaged permeate velocity in spacer-filled Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane systems
Ma, S.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2006)The accuracy of estimations of wall concentration using the constant (averaged) permeate velocity method was assessed in both empty and spacer-filled reverse osmosis (RO) channels under various operation conditions, based ...
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Assessing the accuracy of wall concentration estimation based on averaged permeate velocity in spacer-filled Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane systems
Ma, S.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2006)The accuracy of estimations of wall concentration using the constant (averaged) permeate velocity method was assessed in both empty and spacer-filled reverse osmosis (RO) channels under various operation conditions, based ...
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Assessing the impact of concentration-dependent fluid properties on concentration polarization in crossflow membrane systems
Ma, S.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2008)
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Assessing the impact of concentration-dependent fluid properties on concentration polarization in crossflow membrane systems
Ma, S.; Kassinos, Stavros C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2008)
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Assessing the potential of pharmaceuticals and their transformation products to cause mutagenic effects: Implications for gene expression profiling
Vasquez, Marlen I.; Tarapoulouzi, Maria; Lambrianides, Nancy; Hapeshi, E.; Felekkis, Kyriakos; Saile, Maria; Sticht, Carsten; Gretz, Norbert; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2016)The selection and prioritization of pharmaceuticals and their transformation products for evaluating effects on the environment and human health is a challenging task. One common approach is based on compounds (e.g., mixture ...
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Assessing the presence of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin in piggery wastewater and their adsorption behaviour onto solid materials, with a newly developed chromatographic method
Parpounas, A.; Litskas, V.; Hapeshi, E.; Michael, C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2017)
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Book Chapter
Behavior of pharmaceuticals and their degradation products during wastewater treatmen
Nikolaou, A. D.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Kostopoulou-Karadanelli, M.; Meric, S. (2009)
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Bioassays currently available for evaluating the biological potency of pharmaceuticals in treated wastewater
Vasquez, Marlen I.; Michael, I.; Kümmerer, K.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2016)
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Biodegradation potential of ofloxacin and its resulting transformation products during photolytic and photocatalytic treatment
Vasquez, Marlen I.; Hapeshi, E.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Kümmerer, K. (2013)The release of pharmaceuticals in the environment, as parent compounds, metabolites and transformation products, and the consequent risks posed to living organisms due to the unintended exposure of the latter to these ...
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Can solar water-treatment really help in the fight against water shortages?
Fernàndez-Ibañez, Pilar; McGuigan, K. G.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2017)
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Chronic ecotoxic effects to Pseudomonas putida and Vibrio fischeri, and cytostatic and genotoxic effects to the hepatoma cell line (HepG2) of ofloxacin photo(cata)lytically treated solutions
Vasquez, Marlen I.; Garcia-Käufer, M.; Hapeshi, E.; Menz, J.; Kostarelos, K.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Kümmerer, K. (2013)Ofloxacin (OFL), a broad-spectrum and widespread-used photolabile fluoroquinolone, is frequently found in treated wastewaters, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems leading to increasing concern during the past decades regarding ...
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Corrigendum to: “Long-term wastewater irrigation of vegetables in real agricultural systems: Concentration of pharmaceuticals in soil, uptake and bioaccumulation in tomato fruits and human health risk assessment.” [Water Res. 109 (2017) 24–34] (S0043135416308788) (10.1016/j.watres.2016.11.033)
Christou, A.; Karaolia, P.; Hapeshi, E.; Michael, C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2017)
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Current status in wastewater treatment, reuse and research in some mediterranean countries
Kalavrouziotis, Ioannis K.; Kokkinos, Petros; Oron, Gideon; Fatone, Francesco; Bolzonella, David; Vatyliotou, Margarita; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Koukoulakis, Prodromos H.; Varnavas, Soterios P. (2015)
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Degradation kinetics and mechanism of β-lactam antibiotics by the activation of H2O2 and Na2S2O8 under UV-254nm irradiation
He, Xuexiang; Mezyk, Stephen P.; Michael, Irene; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Dionysiou, D. D. (2014)The extensive production and usage of antibiotics have led to an increasing occurrence of antibiotic residuals in various aquatic compartments, presenting a significant threat to both ecosystem and human health. This study ...
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Degradation of diclofenac by TiO2 photocatalysis: UV absorbance kinetics and process evaluation through a set of toxicity bioassays
Rizzo, L.; Meric, S.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Guida, M.; Russo, F.; Belgiorno, V. (2009)In the present study the degradation kinetics and mineralization of diclofenac (DCF) by the TiO2 photocatalysis were investigated in terms of UV absorbance and COD measurements for a wide range of initial DCF concentrations ...