Carbamazepine, diclofenac, ibuprofen and bezafibrate - investigations on the behaviour of selected pharmaceuticals during wastewater treatment

2004 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 269-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Strenn ◽  
M. Clara ◽  
O. Gans ◽  
N. Kreuzinger
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Surface Waters ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Reduction Rate ◽  
Pharmaceutically Active Compounds ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process

Numerous investigations in different European countries observed various pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in notable concentrations in the aquatic environment. Further determinations found the effluents of sewage treatment plants (STPs) to be significant sources for the entry of pharmaceutical residuals to rivers, streams and surface waters. Due to those pathways the knowledge about the elimination of these substances and their behaviour in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) is elementary for protection of an intact aquatic environment. Since the sludge retention time (SRT) is the most important parameter for the design of STPs, its influence on the reduction rate of these PhACs in the wastewater treatment process was investigated. To study this influence of the SRT on the elimination of PhACs, lab scale plants have been operated with different sludge retention times. The results of the laboratory experiments have been validated analysing various STPs within a wide capacity range and operating at different SRTs. This report describes the determinations observed on the antiepileptic drug Carbamazepine, the two antiphlogistics and analgesics Diclofenac and Ibuprofen and the lipid regulator Bezafibrate.

An Engineering Example of Technological Transformation about Wastewater Treatment Plant

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 2324-2327
Author(s):  
Jun Feng Wu ◽  
Hua Shu Ouyang ◽  
Xian Li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Main Process ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process

To alleviate the water pollution, the original wastewater treatment process was transformed based on the existing structures. Anaerobic-anoxic-aerobic process (A2/O process) was used as the main process, instead of the original two-stage aeration process (AB process). Pretreatment process and advanced treatment process were strengthened. After transformation, the effluent quality could meet the first class of A standard of the "municipal wastewater treatment plant emission standards" (GB18918-2002) and all the quality indexes of the treated water met the requirements of discharge standard of sewage treatment. The original structures were fully used in this transformation, saving investment, which provided a practical reference for the transformation of the wastewater treatment plants.

scholarly journals Unravelling diversity and metabolic potential of microbial consortia at each stage of leather sewage treatment

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (66) ◽  
pp. 41727-41737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hebin Liang ◽  
Dongdong Ye ◽  
Lixin Luo
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Microbial Consortia ◽  
Biological Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Metabolic Potential ◽  
Ecological Functions ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process ◽  
System P

Activated sludge is essential for the biological wastewater treatment process and the identification of active microbes enlarges awareness of their ecological functions in this system.

Compact high-rate treatment of wastewater

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
H. Ødegaard ◽  
Z. Liao ◽  
E. Melin ◽  
H. Helness
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Primary Treatment ◽  
Biofilm Reactor ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process ◽  
Direct Filtration ◽  
Colloidal Matter

Many cities need to build compact wastewater treatment plants because of lack of land. This paper discusses compact treatment methods. An enhanced primary treatment process based on coarse media filtration is analysed. A high-rate secondary wastewater treatment process has specifically been investigated, consisting of a highly loaded moving bed biofilm reactor directly followed by a coagulation and floc separation step. The objective with this high-rate process is to meet secondary treatment effluent standards at a minimum use of chemicals, minimum sludge production and minimum footprint. It is demonstrated that the biofilm in the bioreactor mainly deals with the soluble organic matter while coagulation deals with the colloidal matter. The bioreactor may, therefore, be designed based on the soluble COD loading only, resulting in a very compact plant when a compact biomass/floc separation reactor (i.e. flotation or direct filtration) is used. The paper reports specifically on the coagulant choice in flotation and filter run time in direct filtration.

scholarly journals Simultaneous Denitrification and Bio-Methanol Production for Sustainable Operation of Biogas Plants

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6658 ◽  
Author(s):  
I-Tae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Carbon Source ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Treatment Efficiency ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process ◽  
Methanol Production ◽  
Sustainable Operation ◽  
Biogas Plants

This study was conducted to secure the sustainability of biogas plants for generating resources from food waste (FW) leachates, which are prohibited from marine dumping and have been obligated to be completely treated on land since 2013 in South Korea. The aim of this study is to reduce the nitrogen load of the treatment process while producing bio-methanol using digested FW leachate diverted into wastewater treatment plants. By using biogas in conditions where methylobacter (M. marinus 88.2%) with strong tolerance to highly chlorinated FW leachate dominated, 3.82 mM of methanol production and 56.1% of total nitrogen (TN) removal were possible. Therefore, the proposed method can contribute to improving the treatment efficiency by accommodating twice the current carried-in FW leachate amount based on TN or by significantly reducing the nitrogen load in the subsequent wastewater treatment process. Moreover, the produced methanol can be an effective alternative for carbon source supply for denitrification in the subsequent process.

Fate and mass balances of triclosan (TCS), tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) and tribromobisphenol A (tri-BBPA) during the municipal wastewater treatment process

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry McPhedran ◽  
Rajesh Seth ◽  
Min Song ◽  
Shaogang Chu ◽  
Robert J. Letcher
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Tetrabromobisphenol A ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Mass Balances ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process ◽  
Detroit River

Municipal wastewater treatment plants (MWTPs) are impacted by down-the-drain influents of anthropogenic chemicals. These chemicals are in consumer products and include the flame retardant tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) and antimicrobial triclosan (TCS). Characterization of the distribution of TBBPA, TCS and the TBBPA product tribromobisphenol A (tri-BBPA) was determined at five stages along the treatment process of a typical Canadian MWTP facility. Overall, the TCS concentrations for both liquid (influents, primary effluents and final effluents (FEs)) and solid samples (primary and waste activated sludges) were similar to reported ranges in the literature. In contrast to TCS, both TBBPA and tri-BBPA concentrations were scarcely available in the literature. The TBBPA concentrations were within literature ranges for both influents and sludges, while the tri-BBPA sludge concentrations were markedly higher than a single available previous study. Mass balances for TCS, TBBPA and tri-BBPA indicated 7, 9 and 42%, respectively, of each chemical remaining in the FEs. The resultant annual mass loadings into the Detroit River were estimated to be 3.3 kg, 6.57 g, and 21.5 g for TCS, TBBPA and tri-BBPA, respectively.

Evolution of bacterial consortia in an integrated tannery wastewater treatment process

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (90) ◽  
pp. 87380-87388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hebin Liang ◽  
Dongdong Ye ◽  
Pan Li ◽  
Tingting Su ◽  
Jiegen Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Physicochemical Characteristics ◽  
Tannery Wastewater ◽  
Illumina Hiseq ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process ◽  
Bacterial Consortia

PCR-DGGE and Illumina HiSeq revealed the composition of bacterial communities in tannery sewage treatment and their linkages with the physicochemical characteristics of wastewater.

Occurrence of nonylphenol, nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants and nonylphenol carboxylic acids in wastewater in Japan

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (11) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Komori ◽  
Y. Okayasu ◽  
M. Yasojima ◽  
Y. Suzuki ◽  
H. Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Degradation Rate ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Anaerobic Conditions ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process ◽  
Nonylphenol Ethoxylate ◽  
Related Substances ◽  
Treatment Processes

Nonylphenol (NP) is known to be a byproduct of nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPnEO) which are used as detergents in industry. It is important that not only NP but also NPnEO and their related substances are analysed when behaviour of NP in the wastewater treatment process is surveyed. NPnEO are biodegraded to shorter ethoxylate (EO) chain NPnEO or nonylphenol carboxylates (NPnEC) under aerobic conditions, and then biodegraded to NP under anaerobic conditions. NP is one of the suspected endocrine disruptors (ED). Moreover, shorter EO chain NPnEO has greater toxicity than longer EO chain NPnEO. We conducted a field survey of NP and its related substances in 20 wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). The concentrations (median) of NP and its related substances in the WWTPs' influent ranged from 0.1 to 8.3 μg/L, showing NP concentration as the same level as those previously reported. The reduction of the long EO chain NPnEO in the WWTPs was almost complete, while the removal efficiency for the short EO chain NPnEO was less significant than the long EO chain NPnEO, suggesting that the degradation rate of the short EO chain NPnEO was lower than that of the long EO chain NPnEO in the wastewater treatment processes.

A Novel Predictive PID Control Method for SBR Wastewater Treatment Process DO Control

2014 ◽  
Vol 955-959 ◽  
pp. 1437-1442
Author(s):  
Hai Bo Yu ◽  
Yu Zhao Feng ◽  
Wei Peng ◽  
Li Wei Sheng ◽  
Hong Lu Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Pid Control ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Batch Reactor ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process ◽  
Do Control

Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) wastewater treatment process has lots of characteristics, such as randomness, time-varying characteristics, complexity and so on. In order to solve the above problems, a predictive PID control method based on DMC and ordinary PID for SBR wastewater treatment process dissolved oxygen (DO) control was proposed. The simulation studies were conducted with the MATLAB in a sewage treatment plant. The results showed that the proposed predictive PID control method was robust and jamproof. Meanwhile, the wastewater treatment system also had a strong capacity of shock load.

Effect of the rotifer Lecane inermis, a potential sludge bulking control agent, on process parameters in a laboratory-scale SBR system

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 2012-2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wioleta Kocerba-Soroka ◽  
Edyta Fiałkowska ◽  
Agnieszka Pajdak-Stós ◽  
Mateusz Sobczyk ◽  
Małgorzata Pławecka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Batch Reactors ◽  
Activated Sludge Process ◽  
Filamentous Bacteria ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Process

The influence of a high density of rotifers, which is known to be able to control filamentous bacteria, on the parameters of an activated sludge process was examined in four professional laboratory batch reactors. These reactors allow the imitation of the work of a wastewater treatment plant with enhanced nutrient removal. The parameters, including oxygen concentration, pH and temperature, were constantly controlled. The experiment showed that Lecane rotifers are able to proliferate in cyclically anaerobic/anoxic and aerobic conditions and at dissolved oxygen concentrations as low as 1 mg/L. In 1 week, rotifer density increased fivefold, exceeding the value of 2,200 ind./mL. The grazing activity led to an improvement in settling properties. Extremely high numbers of rotifers did not affect the main parameters, chemical oxygen demand (COD), N-NH4, N-NO3, P-PO4 and pH, during sewage treatment. Therefore, the use of rotifers as a tool to limit the growth of filamentous bacteria appears to be safe for the entire wastewater treatment process.

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