Journal of hazardous materials
Thermophilic anaerobic digestion enables simultaneous waste activated sludge reduction and metronidazole degradation.
Wen-Qian Zhao, Chao Song, Xiu-Hua Zhang, Ai-Hua Tang, Xian-Zheng Yuan, Peng-Fei Xia, Shu-Guang Wang
Published: 202610.1016/j.jhazmat.2026.141174
Abstract
Metronidazole (MNZ), a drug targeting anaerobic infections, disrupts anaerobic digestion (AD) more severely than other broad-spectrum antibiotics. Activated by reduction, it resists aerobic degradation, leading to its discharge from wastewater treatm…
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