Occurrence and removal of pharmaceuticals in four full-scale constructed wetlands in the Czech Republic – the first year of monitoring

Vymazal, Jan; Březinová, Tereza; Koželuh, Milan; Kule, Lumír

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.08.010

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“…The likely reason for this fact is that the wastewater in the outdoor tanks of the mechanical-biological wastewater treatment plants was exposed to sunlight and intensive aeration during the treatment process. As reported in literature [8], aerobic biodegradation and photodegradation are important processes of ibuprofen removal from wastewater, but they are very limited in constructed wetlands.…”

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“…The best understanding regarding the behavior of pharmaceuticals in surface water and their impact on the environment was documented by Costanzo et al [3], Peake and Braund [4], Jobling et al [5], and Deo and Halden [6]. Petrie et al [7] and Vymazal et al [8,9] dealt with the occurrence of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants and in constructed wetlands. Their results indicate that the removal efficiency of pharmaceuticals varies greatly among different wastewater treatment systems and among the substances studied.…”

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Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater and Their Interaction with Shallow Aquifers: A Case Study of Horní Beřkovice, Czech Republic

Rozman

Hrkal

Váňa

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Water

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Abstract:The application of innovative technologies in water management, such as wastewater reuse, requires a deeper understanding of emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals. This study presents a unique pilot site at Horní Beřkovice in Central Bohemia, where wastewater parameters are significantly influenced by the effluent from a local psychiatric hospital, and where the treated wastewater infiltrates into a shallow aquifer over a long period. The survey compared the quality parameters of local wastewater with those of the wastewater in four other catchments with no sources of concentrated pharmaceutical contamination. A total of 10 pharmaceuticals were detected while monitoring a common sewage system, but their number increased 3-fold at Horní Beřkovice. The water quality data revealed the effectiveness of the removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater at the local sewage treatment plant and tracked the fate of substances that move from the treatment plant into the recharge ponds and then gradually into groundwater. The findings showed a significant decrease in all the monitored micropollutants that remained bound in sediments and in the unsaturated zone. Their passage into groundwater was highly reduced, and they virtually disappear after a few hundred meters in the saturated zone. The only exception is carbamazepine. This substance passes through the treatment technology and unsaturated zone. It systematically appears in the groundwater samples collected about 1 km from the infiltration site.

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Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater and Their Interaction with Shallow Aquifers: A Case Study of Horní Beřkovice, Czech Republic

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Váňa

et al. 2017

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“…22 Devido a esses diferentes processos de tratamento realizados pelas wetlands construídas, a utilização deste tipo de sistema para remoção de interferentes endócrinos em águas residuárias têm se mostrado eficiente por diversos autores e são adequados para serem aplicados em pequenas propriedades. 10,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] Tendo em vista que um dos mecanismos de remoção de interferentes endócrinos por wetlands construídas é a absorção destes pelas macrófitas, é de extrema importância analisar, além das concentrações destes na água residuária, também nas plantas, para que seja possível elucidar os mecanismos de remoção destes compostos nos diferentes compartimentos das wetlands construídas. Na Figura 1 estão apresentados os componentes que fazem parte de uma wetland construída de fluxo subsuperficial.…”

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Desenvolvimento E Validação De Método Para Determinação De Bisfenol a E Etinilestradiol Em Aguapé E Mini-Papiro Provenientes De Wetlands Construídas

Campos¹,

Roston²,

Queiroz³

2019

Quím. Nova

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A and ethinylestradiol, both considered as endocrine disruptors, have been found in surface water and effluents from municipal wastewater supply and can cause adverse health effects on wildlife species and in human beings at extremely low level. In order to remove these compounds from wastewater, constructed wetlands has been used since it proved to be more efficient, and has less cost than conventional treatments. One of the mechanisms of removal of endocrine disruptors by constructed wetlands is the uptake by macrophytes, so it is necessary to analyze these compounds in the plants of the system. Thus, the objective of this study was to develop and validate two methods by high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detector capable of determining these compounds in dwarf papyrus and water hyacinth. The evaluated parameters in the validation were: linearity (R 2 ≥ 0.99), limit of detection (LOD = 0.045-0.15 µg g -1 ), limit of quantification (LOQ = 0.15-1.50 µg g -1 ), accuracy (recoveries from 83.5 to 119.4%) and precision (intra-day CV ≤ 6.2% and inter-day CV ≤ 5.8%). Samples from a constructed wetland were analyzed and the developed methods showed be suitable for intended purpose.

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“…These substances were recorded at very low concentrations in the order of tens to hundreds of nanograms per liter (only Carbamazepine, Gabapentine and Hydrochlorothiazide were detected at concentrations in the order of micrograms per liter). Similar results were also recorded at a root WWTPs in the Želivka water reservoir (Chena et al ., , Vymazal and Dvořáková Březinová, , Vymazal et al ., ). Studies in USA (Lubliner et al ., ), UK (Kasprzyk‐Hordern et al ., ), Germany (Ternes, ), Switzerland (Tauxe‐Wuersch et al ., ), and Australia (Ying et al ., 2009) have revealed a relation between the different technologies used in WWTPs and respective PPCP removal rates.…”

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Socio‐economic impacts of the pharmaceuticals detection and activated carbon treatment technology in water management – an example from the Czech Republic

Hrkal

Harstadt

Rozman

et al. 2018

Water & Environment J

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The fast development of laboratory methods has revealed increased amounts of trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCP) in waste waters in the Czech Republic. This paper focuses on the expected costs to solve this problem by quaternary treatment of waste water based on activated carbon filtration. The one‐time investment costs in 155 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) with a capacity of over 10 000 population equivalent (PE) would represent an amount of around 300 million EUR. The increase in end‐user operating costs would be 0.4 EUR/m3, which would mean a 15% increase in water and sewage costs. A sociological survey showed that most respondents (65%) would agree with an increase in price but only by 10%. Currently the cost of the quaternary treatment of wastewater is based primarily on estimates. Therefore changes in legislation leading to stricter limits and an increase in the efficiency of wastewater treatment should be preceded by additional applied research.

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Occurrence and removal of pharmaceuticals in four full-scale constructed wetlands in the Czech Republic – the first year of monitoring

Cited by 155 publications

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Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater and Their Interaction with Shallow Aquifers: A Case Study of Horní Beřkovice, Czech Republic

Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater and Their Interaction with Shallow Aquifers: A Case Study of Horní Beřkovice, Czech Republic

Desenvolvimento E Validação De Método Para Determinação De Bisfenol a E Etinilestradiol Em Aguapé E Mini-Papiro Provenientes De Wetlands Construídas

Socio‐economic impacts of the pharmaceuticals detection and activated carbon treatment technology in water management – an example from the Czech Republic

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