Browsing by Author "Hapeshi, E."
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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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Assessment of long-term wastewater irrigation impacts on the soil geochemical properties and the bioaccumulation of heavy metals to the agricultural products
Christou, Anastasis; Eliadou, Elena; Michael, Costas; Hapeshi, E.; Fatta-kassinos, Despo (2014)An extensive field survey was employed for assessing the impacts of long-term wastewater irrigation of forage crops and orange orchards in three suburban agricultural areas in Cyprus (areas I, II, and III), as compared to ...
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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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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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Development and validation of a UPLC-MS/MS method for studying the degradation kinetics of ofloxacin and trimethoprim during the application of solar Fenton process in secondary treated sewage
Michael, I.; Hapeshi, E.; Michael, C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2012)
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Drugs degrading photocatalytically: Kinetics and mechanisms of ofloxacin and atenolol removal on titania suspensions
Hapeshi, E.; Achilleos, A.; Vasquez, Marlen I.; Michael, C.; Xekoukoulotakis, Nikolaos P.; Mantzavinos, D.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2010)The conversion of the antibiotic ofloxacin and the ß-blocker atenolol by means of TiO2 photocatalysis was investigated. Irradiation was provided by a UVA lamp at 3.37×10-6einstein/s photon flux, while emphasis was given ...
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Effects of wastewater applied with discrete irrigation techniques on strawberry plants’ productivity and the safety, quality characteristics and antioxidant capacity of fruits
Christou, Anastasis; Maratheftis, Grivas; Elia, Michael; Hapeshi, E.; Michael, Costas; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2016)•Wastewater was applied with drips and sprinklers for strawberry irrigation.•Irrigation treatments did not significantly impact fruits’ marketability and taste.•Heavy metals in strawberry fruits were below the MPLs for ...
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Erythromycin oxidation and ERY-resistant Escherichia coli inactivation in urban wastewater by sulfate radical-based oxidation process under UV-C irradiation
Michael-Kordatou, Irene; Iacovou, M.; Frontistis, Z.; Hapeshi, E.; Dionysiou, D. D.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2015)This study evaluates the feasibility of UV-C-driven advanced oxidation process induced by sulfate radicals (SO4-) in degrading erythromycin (ERY) in secondary treated wastewater. The results revealed that 10 mg L-1 of ...
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Existence of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Tertiary Treated Urban Wastewater that is Utilized for Reuse Applications
Fatta-kassinos, Despo; Hapeshi, E.; Achilleos, A.; Meric, S.; Gros, M.; Petrovic, M.; Barceló, D. (2011)Research on the effects of chemical pollution in the environment that is related to urban wastewaters' discharge and reuse until recently was focused almost exclusively on conventional pollutants. During the last several ...
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Factors affecting diclofenac decomposition in water by UV-A/TiO2 photocatalysis
Achilleos, A.; Hapeshi, E.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Xekoukoulotakis, Nikolaos P.; Mantzavinos, D. (2010)
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Fast degradation of estrogen hormones in environmental matrices by photo-Fenton oxidation under simulated solar radiation
Frontistis, Z.; Xekoukoulotakis, Nikolaos P.; Hapeshi, E.; Venieri, D.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Mantzavinos, D. (2011)
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Impact assessment of the reuse of two discrete treated wastewaters for the irrigation of tomato crop on the soil geochemical properties, fruit safety and crop productivity
Christou, Anastasis; Maratheftis, Grivas; Eliadou, Elena; Michael, Costas; Hapeshi, E.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2014)•Treated wastewater from two tertiary treatment technologies was applied for irrigation.•Wastewater irrigation did not significantly impact soil heavy metal content.•Heavy metals in tomato fruits were within the safe limits ...
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Investigating the fate of iodinated X-ray contrast media iohexol and diatrizoate during microbial degradation in an MBBR system treating urban wastewater
Hapeshi, E.; Lambrianides, 2 ), A. ( 1; Koutsoftas, 2 ), P. ( 1; Michael, C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Kastanos, E. (2013)
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Investigating the fate of iodinated X-ray contrast media iohexol and diatrizoate during microbial degradation in an MBBR system treating urban wastewater
Hapeshi, E.; Lambrianides, A.; Koutsoftas, P.; Kastanos, E.; Michael, C.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2013)The capability of a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) to remove the iodinated contrast media (ICM) iohexol (IOX) and diatrizoate (DTZ) from municipal wastewater was studied. A selected number of clones of microorganisms ...
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Investigation of the potential of a Membrane BioReactor followed by solar Fenton oxidation to remove antibiotic-related microcontaminants
Karaolia, 2 ), P. ( 1; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Michael-Kordatou, Irene; Hapeshi, E.; Alexander, J.; Schwartz, T. (2017)
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Kinetic and mechanism investigation on the photochemical degradation of atrazine with activated H2O2, S2O82− and HSO5−
Khan, Javed Ali; He, Xuexiang; Shah, Noor S.; Khan, Hasan M.; Hapeshi, E.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Dionysiou, D. D. (2014)•Degradation of atrazine was investigated in UV, UV/H2O2, UV/HSO5− and UV/S2O82− AOPs.•UV/S2O82− process was found to be more efficient as well as more economical.•The pH affected UV/S2O82− but had no significant influence ...
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Kinetics of UV-A/TiO2 photocatalytic degradation and mineralization of the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole in aqueous matrices
Xekoukoulotakis, Nikolaos P.; Drosou, C.; Brebou, C.; Chatzisymeon, Efthalia; Mantzavinos, D.; Hapeshi, E.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2011)
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Licit and Illicit Drugs in Urban Wastewater in Cyprus
Hapeshi, E.; Gros, M.; Lopez-Serna, R.; Boleda, M.-R.; Ventura, F.; Petrovic, M.; Barceló, D.; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2015)