Xenobiotics in the urban water cycle : mass flows, environmental processes, mitigation and treatment strategies

Foreword.- Scope Of The Book.- Part 1: Occurrence Concentrations, Sources And Fluxes Of Xenobiotics In Urban Waters.- Quantitative Mass Flows Of Selected Xenobiotics In Urban Waters And Waste Water Treatment Plants.- Identifying And Classifying The Sources And Uses Of Xenobiotics In Urban Environments.- Illicit Drugs In The Urban Water Cycle.- Precious Metals In Urban Aquatic Systems: Platinum, Palladium And Rhodium-Sources, Occurrence, Bioavailability And Effects.- Fate And Effects Of Little Investigated Scents In The Aquatic Environment.- Sources And Occurrence Of Cyanotoxins Worldwide.- Occurrence And Measurements Of Organic Xenobiotic Compounds In Harbor And Coastal Sediments.-Determination Of Sources And Emissions Of Persistent Organic Contaminants By Means Of Sewage Sludge From A Monitoring Network.- Part 2: Fate, Effects And Risks Of Xenobiotics In Urban Waters.- Metabolic And Cometabolic Degradation Of Industrially Important Chlorinated Organics Under Aerobic Conditions.- Photochemical Transformation Of Pharmaceuticals In The Aquatic Environment: Reaction Pathways And Intermediates.- The Challenge Of The Identification And Quantification Of Transformation Products In The Aquatic Environment Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry.- Transport And Fate Of Xenobiotics In The Urban Water Cycle: Studies In Halle/Saale And Leipzig (Germany).- Pharmaceutical Contaminants In Urban Water Cycles-A Discussion Of Novel Concepts For Environmental Risk Assessment.- Hydroxy Benzoate Preservatives (Parabens) In The Environment: Data For Environmental Toxicity Assessment.- Part 3: Treatment Methods.- Efficiency Of Removal Of Compounds With Estrogenic Activity During Wastewater Treatment -- Effects Of Various Removal Techniques.- Criteria For Designing Sewage Treatment Plants For Enhanced Removal Of Organic Micropollutants.- Xenobiotics Removal By Membrane Technology: An Overview.- Membrane Bioreactors: A Cost-Effective Solution To Enhance The Removal Of Xenobiotics From Urban Wastewaters?.- Removal Of Xenobiotics From Wastewater In Sequencing Batch Reactors: Conventional And Two-Phase Configurations.- Fate And Occurrence Of Surfactants-Derived Alkylphenolic Compounds In Conventional And Membrane Bioreactor Wastewater Treatment Plants.- Removal Of Xenobiotic Compounds From Water And Wastewater By Advanced Oxidation Processes.- Commercially Important Aryl Sulphonates In The Environment: Fate, Treatability And Identification Of Degradation Products.- Uptake Of Xenobiotics From Polluted Waters By Plants.- Treatment Techniques And Analysis Of Stormwater Runoff From Roads In Hamburg, Germany.- Part 4: Mitigation Measures -- Technical And Socioeconomic Instruments.- Options For Mitigation-An Overview Of Measures.- Part 5: Outlook.-Index.