Occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants and rivers in Korea

Sim, Won-Jin; Lee, Jiwoo; Oh, Jeong‐Eun

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.10.036

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“…Interestingly, in many cases PPCP loads increase during the wastewater treatment. Thus, diclofenac showed a raise of 105% in a sewage treatment plant of Sweden [28], and up to 300% in a WWTP in Korea [24]. In the latter study, other PPCPs showing a negative removal rate were acetylsalicylic acid, naproxen, ketoprofen and clofibric acid.…”

Section: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (Ppcps)mentioning

confidence: 92%

“…It is difficult to discuss typical concentration levels (Table 1) of PPCPs as these can range from hundreds of pg/L up to hundreds of g/L [13,15,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25], depending on the target PPCP and the type of wastewater. Other important factors that play a role in the occurring levels are the types of products that can be found in the pharmaceutical market in each country, or the possibility in some countries to purchase medicines without a medical prescription [15].…”

Section: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (Ppcps)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (Ppcps)mentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (Ppcps)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Occurrence of organic microcontaminants in the wastewater treatment process. A mini review

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et al. 2012

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“…Now days the presence of pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in urban wastewater, mainly as a consequence of the uptake of medicines, is largely known [1][2][3][4][5]. Because of the presence of active biochemical principles in their molecules, pharmaceuticals, once released to water environments, present potential hazardous effects on humans and aquatic ecosystems [6,7].…”

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Some ozone advanced oxidation processes to improve the biological removal of selected pharmaceutical contaminants from urban wastewater

Espejo

Aguinaco

Amat

et al. 2013

Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A

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Removal of nine pharmaceutical compounds: acetaminophen, AAF, antipyrine, ANT, caffeine, CAF, carbamazepine, CRB, diclofenac, DCF, hydrochlorothiazide, HCT, ketorolac, KET, metoprolol, MET and sulfamethoxazole, SMX, spiked in a primary sedimentation effluent of a municipal wastewater has been studied with sequential aerobic biological and ozone advanced oxidation systems. Ozone, UVA or Fe(III) during photocatalytic ozonations also allowed mineralization increases, compared to the single ozonation process, from 13% to about 35%. Biodegradability of the treated wastewater increased 50% in the biological process and other 150% after the ozonation processes. Both untreated and treated wastewater was non toxic for Daphnia Magna except when Fe(III) was used in photocatalytic ozonation. In this case, the ferryoxalate formed seems to be the reason of toxicity. Kinetic information on ozone processes reveals that pharmaceuticals at the very low concentrations they are found in urban wastewater are mainly removed through free radical oxidation.2

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“…The researched found biological processes in the WWTP showed the greatest efficacy for reducing the concentration of the pharmaceuticals. Overall, although conversional wastewater treatments only partially remove concentration pharmaceutical several compound, while some of the pharmaceuticals are resistant to degradation and persistent in the environment [24]. The result of WWTPs is still unsatisfactory.…”

Section: Wastewatermentioning

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Emerging Pollutant of Concern: Occurrence of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Asia with Particular Preference to Southeast Asia Countries

Hashim

Nasir

Ramlee

2016

MATEC Web of Conferences

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Abstract. Southeast Asia countries were developing countries, with the rapid development for a better living condition leads to longer life expectancy, which increased total population. It may result in increased the demand of pharmaceutical in domestic use and or in hospital. Although most wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) met the local authority's regulatory requirement, there are still many pharmaceutical compound incompletely removed and discharge to the water stream and enter the environment. Recently many studies and researches have published on the occurrence and source as well as the fate of pharmaceuticals all over the world including Asia. As part of Asia region, Southeast Asia countries (Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, and Lao PDR) seem has lack of research knowledge and information regarding this emerging pollutant issues compared to developed Asia country as China, Korea and Hong Kong. In this paper, it will review recent studies occurrences (surface and wastewater) on most common pharmaceuticals with several recommendations to overcome and thus summarise the actual situation in Southeast Asia.

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Occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants and rivers in Korea

Cited by 267 publications

References 45 publications

Occurrence of organic microcontaminants in the wastewater treatment process. A mini review

Occurrence of organic microcontaminants in the wastewater treatment process. A mini review

Some ozone advanced oxidation processes to improve the biological removal of selected pharmaceutical contaminants from urban wastewater

Emerging Pollutant of Concern: Occurrence of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Asia with Particular Preference to Southeast Asia Countries

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