Evaluation of emerging pollutants present in wastewater from the Ucubamba treatment plant and removal through biosorption and phytoremediation techniques.

Water is an indispensable natural resource and its conservation is a topic of world interest. The presence of new polluting, such as drugs and disinfectant products have no regulation under national legislation and their real danger is unknown, even when these compounds have a high transformation/removal rate, their contamination lies in their continuous introduction volume. On the other hand, in Ecuador there is a high marketing of "free sale" medications which end as pollutants in water supply sources. Currently, there is very little information from emerging pollutants at the national level and a method of analysis for these pollutants is lacking, so it is intended to establish, in the first instance, an adequate identification and quantification procedure and secondly, the conventional treatments of wastewater are deficient for the removal of emerging pollutants, so that the study of alternative technologies such as biosorption is proposed, based on the use of plant waste That through the use of plants that are reported in the literature as accumulatory of organic compounds are possible techniques for drug removal. With this work the main contributions are those of having an proven technique for the identification of emerging pollutants in our environment and of possible removal technique of them that can serve as the basis for the development of wastewater treatment systems that eliminate such contaminants from the aqueous environment.

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