Prediction of sludge settleability, density and suspended solids of aerobic granular sludge in the presence of pharmaceutically active compounds by quantitative image analysis and chemometric tools
Abstract:Steroid estrogens namely 17β-estradiol (E2) and 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) and antibiotics including sulfamethoxazole (SMX) are pharmaceutically active compounds (PhAC) of emerging concern due to their environmental and human health impacts even at ppb range concentrations. These compounds usually flow to wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) and are released to the aquatic systems due to inefficient removal in conventional biological systems. In this work, a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) with aerobic granular s… Show more
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