Assessment of Existing Fate and Transport Models for Predicting Antibiotic Degradation and Transport in the Aquatic Environment: A Review
In recent years, the use of antibiotics for human medicine, animal husbandry, agriculture, aquaculture, and product preservation has become a common practice. The use and application of antibiotics leave significant residues in different forms, with the aquatic environment becoming the critical sink...
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| author | Temesgen Zelalem Addis Joy Tuoyo Adu Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy Molla Demlie |
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| description | In recent years, the use of antibiotics for human medicine, animal husbandry, agriculture, aquaculture, and product preservation has become a common practice. The use and application of antibiotics leave significant residues in different forms, with the aquatic environment becoming the critical sink for accumulating antibiotic residues. Numerous studies have been conducted to understand antibiotic removal and persistence in the aquatic environment. Nevertheless, there is still a huge knowledge gap on their complex interactions in the natural environment, their removal mechanism, and the monitoring of their fate in the environment. Water quality models are practical tools for simulating the fate and transport of pollutant mass in the aquatic environment. This paper reports an overview of the physical, chemical, and biological elimination mechanisms responsible for the degradation of antibiotics in natural surface water systems. It provides an in-depth review of commonly used quantitative fate models. An effort has been made to provide a compressive review of the modeling philosophy, mathematical nature, environmental applicability, parameter estimation, prediction efficiency, strength, and limitation of commonly used environmental antibiotic fate models. The study provides information linking paradigms of elimination kinetics and their simulation in the antibiotic fate models aiming at critical issues regarding current model development and future perspectives and to help users select appropriate models for practical water quality assessment and management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7557f91b5f2248cd96c4706344f663a32023-11-17T21:48:10ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412023-04-01158151110.3390/w15081511Assessment of Existing Fate and Transport Models for Predicting Antibiotic Degradation and Transport in the Aquatic Environment: A ReviewTemesgen Zelalem Addis0Joy Tuoyo Adu1Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy2Molla Demlie3Civil Engineering Programme, School of Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South AfricaCivil Engineering Programme, School of Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South AfricaCivil Engineering Programme, School of Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South AfricaDepartment of Geological Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South AfricaIn recent years, the use of antibiotics for human medicine, animal husbandry, agriculture, aquaculture, and product preservation has become a common practice. The use and application of antibiotics leave significant residues in different forms, with the aquatic environment becoming the critical sink for accumulating antibiotic residues. Numerous studies have been conducted to understand antibiotic removal and persistence in the aquatic environment. Nevertheless, there is still a huge knowledge gap on their complex interactions in the natural environment, their removal mechanism, and the monitoring of their fate in the environment. Water quality models are practical tools for simulating the fate and transport of pollutant mass in the aquatic environment. This paper reports an overview of the physical, chemical, and biological elimination mechanisms responsible for the degradation of antibiotics in natural surface water systems. It provides an in-depth review of commonly used quantitative fate models. An effort has been made to provide a compressive review of the modeling philosophy, mathematical nature, environmental applicability, parameter estimation, prediction efficiency, strength, and limitation of commonly used environmental antibiotic fate models. The study provides information linking paradigms of elimination kinetics and their simulation in the antibiotic fate models aiming at critical issues regarding current model development and future perspectives and to help users select appropriate models for practical water quality assessment and management.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/8/1511antibioticsdegradationfatekineticsmodelingsimulation |
| spellingShingle | Temesgen Zelalem Addis Joy Tuoyo Adu Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy Molla Demlie Assessment of Existing Fate and Transport Models for Predicting Antibiotic Degradation and Transport in the Aquatic Environment: A Review Water antibiotics degradation fate kinetics modeling simulation |
| title | Assessment of Existing Fate and Transport Models for Predicting Antibiotic Degradation and Transport in the Aquatic Environment: A Review |
| title_full | Assessment of Existing Fate and Transport Models for Predicting Antibiotic Degradation and Transport in the Aquatic Environment: A Review |
| title_fullStr | Assessment of Existing Fate and Transport Models for Predicting Antibiotic Degradation and Transport in the Aquatic Environment: A Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Existing Fate and Transport Models for Predicting Antibiotic Degradation and Transport in the Aquatic Environment: A Review |
| title_short | Assessment of Existing Fate and Transport Models for Predicting Antibiotic Degradation and Transport in the Aquatic Environment: A Review |
| title_sort | assessment of existing fate and transport models for predicting antibiotic degradation and transport in the aquatic environment a review |
| topic | antibiotics degradation fate kinetics modeling simulation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/8/1511 |
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