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Required ozone doses for removing pharmaceuticals from wastewater effluents

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Author

  • Maria G. Antoniou
  • Gerly Hey
  • Sergio Rodriguez Vega
  • Aikaterini Spiliotopoulou
  • Jerker Fick
  • Mats Tysklind
  • Jes la Cour Jansen
  • Henrik Rasmus Andersen

Summary, in English

The aim of the this study was to investigate the ozone dosage required to remove active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from biologically treated wastewater of varying quality, originated from different raw wastewater and wastewater treatment processes. Secondary effluents from six Swedish wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) were spiked with 42 APIs (nominal concentration 1 mu g/L) and treated with different O-3 doses (0.5-12.0 mg/L ozone) in bench-scale experiments. In order to compare the sensitivity of APIs in each matrix, the specific dose of ozone required to achieve reduction by one decade of each investigated API (DDO3) was determined for each effluent by fitting a first order equation to the remaining concentration of API at each applied ozone dose. Ozone dose requirements were found to vary significantly between effluents depending on their matrix characteristics. The specific ozone dose was then normalized to the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of each effluent. The DDO3/DOC ratios were comparable for each API between the effluents. 15 of the 42 investigated APIs could be classified as easily degradable (DDO3/DOC <= 0.7), while 19 were moderately degradable (0.7 < DDO3/DOC <= 1.4), and 8 were recalcitrant towards O-3-treatment (DDO3/DOC > 1.4). Furthermore, we predict that a reasonable estimate of the ozone dose required to remove any of the investigated APIs may be attained by multiplying the experimental average DDO3/DOC obtained with the actual DOC of any effluent. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

42-49

Publication/Series

Science of the Total Environment

Volume

456

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Environmental Sciences

Keywords

  • Matrix effect
  • Ozonation
  • Ozone dose
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Wastewater

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1879-1026