Antibiotics in Aquaculture Wastewater: Is It Feasible to Use a Photodegradation-Based Treatment for Their Removal?
Aquacultures are a sector facing a huge development: farmers usually applying antibiotics to treat and/or prevent diseases. Consequently, effluents from aquaculture represent a source of antibiotics for receiving waters, where they pose a potential threat due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) induct...
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| author | Carla Patrícia Silva Vitória Louros Valentina Silva Marta Otero Diana L. D. Lima |
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| description | Aquacultures are a sector facing a huge development: farmers usually applying antibiotics to treat and/or prevent diseases. Consequently, effluents from aquaculture represent a source of antibiotics for receiving waters, where they pose a potential threat due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) induction. This has recently become a major concern and it is expectable that regulations on antibiotics’ discharge will be established in the near future. Therefore, it is urgent to develop treatments for their removal from wastewater. Among the different possibilities, photodegradation under solar radiation may be a sustainable option. Thus, this review aims at providing a survey on photolysis and photocatalysis in view of their application for the degradation of antibiotics from aquaculture wastewater. Experimental facts, factors affecting antibiotics’ removal and employed photocatalysts were hereby addressed. Moreover, gaps in this research area, as well as future challenges, were identified. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-36994ced490a403d86e99ff50f4c631d2023-11-22T10:03:49ZengMDPI AGToxics2305-63042021-08-019819410.3390/toxics9080194Antibiotics in Aquaculture Wastewater: Is It Feasible to Use a Photodegradation-Based Treatment for Their Removal?Carla Patrícia Silva0Vitória Louros1Valentina Silva2Marta Otero3Diana L. D. Lima4CESAM & Department of Chemistry, Campus de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalCESAM & Department of Chemistry, Campus de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalCESAM & Department of Chemistry, Campus de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalCESAM & Department of Environment and Planning, Campus de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalCESAM & Department of Chemistry, Campus de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalAquacultures are a sector facing a huge development: farmers usually applying antibiotics to treat and/or prevent diseases. Consequently, effluents from aquaculture represent a source of antibiotics for receiving waters, where they pose a potential threat due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) induction. This has recently become a major concern and it is expectable that regulations on antibiotics’ discharge will be established in the near future. Therefore, it is urgent to develop treatments for their removal from wastewater. Among the different possibilities, photodegradation under solar radiation may be a sustainable option. Thus, this review aims at providing a survey on photolysis and photocatalysis in view of their application for the degradation of antibiotics from aquaculture wastewater. Experimental facts, factors affecting antibiotics’ removal and employed photocatalysts were hereby addressed. Moreover, gaps in this research area, as well as future challenges, were identified.https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6304/9/8/194aquaculture industrybacterial resistancephotolysisphotocatalysissustainable water treatments |
| spellingShingle | Carla Patrícia Silva Vitória Louros Valentina Silva Marta Otero Diana L. D. Lima Antibiotics in Aquaculture Wastewater: Is It Feasible to Use a Photodegradation-Based Treatment for Their Removal? Toxics aquaculture industry bacterial resistance photolysis photocatalysis sustainable water treatments |
| title | Antibiotics in Aquaculture Wastewater: Is It Feasible to Use a Photodegradation-Based Treatment for Their Removal? |
| title_full | Antibiotics in Aquaculture Wastewater: Is It Feasible to Use a Photodegradation-Based Treatment for Their Removal? |
| title_fullStr | Antibiotics in Aquaculture Wastewater: Is It Feasible to Use a Photodegradation-Based Treatment for Their Removal? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Antibiotics in Aquaculture Wastewater: Is It Feasible to Use a Photodegradation-Based Treatment for Their Removal? |
| title_short | Antibiotics in Aquaculture Wastewater: Is It Feasible to Use a Photodegradation-Based Treatment for Their Removal? |
| title_sort | antibiotics in aquaculture wastewater is it feasible to use a photodegradation based treatment for their removal |
| topic | aquaculture industry bacterial resistance photolysis photocatalysis sustainable water treatments |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6304/9/8/194 |
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