Occurrence and fate of antibiotic, analgesic/anti-inflammatory, and antifungal compounds in five wastewater treatment processes

Guerra, Paula; Kim, Minhee; Shah, Ariba; Alaee, Mehran; Smyth, Shirley Anne

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.12.008

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“…Principal component analysis (PCA) was adopted in this study to analyze the possible correlation between effluent antibiotics concentration and treatment processes in summer and winter (Guerra et al, 2014). All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 18 Software (IBM Corporation, USA).…”

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Occurrence and removal of antibiotics in ecological and conventional wastewater treatment processes: A field study

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Yuan

Wang

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Journal of Environmental Management

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a b s t r a c tThe occurrence and removal of 19 antibiotics (including four macrolides, eight sulfonamides, three fluoroquinolones, three tetracyclines, and trimethoprim) were investigated in two ecological (constructed wetland (CW) and stabilization pond (SP)) and two conventional wastewater treatment processes (activated sludge (AS) and micro-power biofilm (MP)) in a county of eastern China. All target antibiotics were detected in the influent and effluent samples with detection frequencies of >90%. Clarithromycin, ofloxacin, roxithromycin and erythromycin-H 2 O were the dominant antibiotics with maximum concentrations reaching up to 6524, 5411, 964 and 957 ng/L, respectively; while the concentrations of tiamulin, sulfamerazine, sulfathiazole, sulfamethazine, sulfamethizole and sulfisoxazole were below 10 ng/L. Although the mean effluent concentrations of target antibiotics were obviously lower than the influent ones (except ciprofloxacin), their removals were usually incomplete. Principal component analysis showed that the AS and CW outperformed the MP and SP processes and the AS performed better than the CW process in terms of antibiotics removal. Both the AS and CW processes exhibited higher removal efficiencies in summer than in winter, indicating biological degradation could play an important role in antibiotics removal. Because of the incomplete removal, the total concentration of detected antibiotics increased in the mixing and downstream sections of a local river receiving the effluent from a typical wastewater treatment facility practicing AS process. Nowadays, ecological wastewater treatment processes are being rapidly planned and constructed in rural areas of China; however, the discharge of residual antibiotics to the aquatic environment may highlight a necessity for optimizing or upgrading their design and operation.

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Section: Quality Control and Data Analysismentioning

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Occurrence and removal of antibiotics in ecological and conventional wastewater treatment processes: A field study

Dong

Yuan

Wang

et al. 2016

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…OFL is often detected in a variety of environmental samples (Zhang et al, 2013a;Guerra et al, 2014). The concentration of OFL in river water (n.d-4.3 ng/L) was lower compared to the Yellow River in China (n.d-129 ng/L, Xu et al, 2009), the Pearl River in China (n.d-80 ng/L, Yang et al, 2011), urban surface waters of Beijing in China (0.3-990 ng/L, Li et al, 2015) and the Seine River in France (n.d-55 ng/L, Tamtam et al, 2008).…”

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Occurrence and risk assessment of antibiotics in river water in Hong Kong

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Zheng

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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

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“…Several authors agree that the principal removal mechanisms of PPCPs in water treatment systems are biodegradation, sorption in filtering media/particulate material, filtration, chemical oxidation and volatilization (Miège et al, 2009;Guerra et al, 2014); those mechanisms may be either favored or not by the operational conditions of each system and the characteristics of the wastewater to be treated. This is the reason why it is difficult to confirm the persistence of each component in the studied treatment system and it is suggested to undertake more investigations that allow to identify the possible routes and removal mechanisms involved in this kind of treatment system.…”

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Pharmaceutical and personal care products in domestic wastewater and their removal in anaerobic treatment systems: Septic tank – up flow anaerobic filter.

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Presencia de productos farmacéuticos y de cuidado personal en aguas residuales domésticas y su eliminación en sistemas de tratamiento anaerobios: tanque séptico -filtro anaerobio de flujo ascendente ABSTRACTIn several countries around the world, Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) exist in aquatic environments, a fact that increases the awareness within the scientific community with respect to their possible fate and environment effects. This research presents a preliminary monitoring of use, consumption and presence of PPCPs in wastewater from a treatment plant in a rural area of Pereira (Colombia). Domestic sewage is treated in a septic tank followed by an Up-Flow Anaerobic Filter and its effluent is discharged into the Otún River, upstream of the water intake of the supply system of the city. The compounds monitored in this research included ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, aspirin, ketoprofen, caffeine, galaxolide, tonalide and dihydrojasmonate. An adapted method of multi-residue analysis was used, which is based on solid phase extraction with hydrophilic-lipophilic balance cartridges, and determination by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The removal efficiencies demonstrated that the treatment plant could eliminate less than 50 % of dihydrojasmonate, diclofenac and galaxolide existing in wastewater; concentration of aspirin, naproxen and tonalide could only be reduced in 15 %; and caffeine, ibuprofen and ketoprofen were not removed. Results provided basic information to decide over the necessity of complementary treatments for effluents from systems with the mentioned units. Keywords:Medicines, personal care, emerging pollutants, socio-demographic characteristics, domestic wastewater. RESUMENEn muchos países del mundo, los productos farmacéuticos y de cuidado personal (PPCPs) están presentes en el medio acuático, aumentando las preocupaciones entre la comunidad científica respecto a sus posibles destinos y efectos ambientales. Esta investigación presenta un monitoreo preliminar del uso y consumo de PPCPs y su presencia en las aguas residuales de una planta de tratamiento en zona rural de Pereira (Colombia), donde los vertimientos domésticos son tratadas en un sistema tanque séptico-filtro anaerobio y cuyo efluente se vierte en el río Otún antes de la bocatoma del acueducto de la ciudad. Los compuestos monitoreados en esta investigación incluyen ibuprofeno, naproxeno, diclofenaco, aspirina, ketoprofeno, cafeína, galaxolide, tonalida y dihidrojasmonato. Se utilizó un método de análisis multiresiduo adaptado, que se basa en la extracción en fase sólida con cartuchos de balance hydrophiliclipophilic y determinación por cromatografía de gases-espectrometría de masas. La planta de tratamiento pudo eliminar menos del 50 % del dihidrojasmonato, diclofenaco y galaxolida del agua residual; las concentraciones de aspirina, naproxeno y tonalida sólo fueron reducidas en un 15 %, y la cafeína, ibuporfeno y ketoprofeno no fueron removidos. Estos resultados proporcionan información base para decidir sob...

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Occurrence and fate of antibiotic, analgesic/anti-inflammatory, and antifungal compounds in five wastewater treatment processes

Cited by 354 publications

References 39 publications

Occurrence and removal of antibiotics in ecological and conventional wastewater treatment processes: A field study

Occurrence and removal of antibiotics in ecological and conventional wastewater treatment processes: A field study

Occurrence and risk assessment of antibiotics in river water in Hong Kong

Pharmaceutical and personal care products in domestic wastewater and their removal in anaerobic treatment systems: Septic tank – up flow anaerobic filter.

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