Removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater of health care facilities.

Decentralised treatment Granular activated carbon Membrane bioreactor Ozonation Pharmaceutically active compounds UV-irradiation

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Jan 2021
Historique:
received: 03 01 2020
revised: 26 07 2020
accepted: 26 07 2020
pubmed: 30 8 2020
medline: 12 11 2020
entrez: 30 8 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Health care facilities can represent point sources for pharmaceutical residues in public sewer systems. Compared to general hospitals, more specialized health care facilities might also have a different pattern of medication. Therefore, the on-site treatment of wastewater from such facilities could be an effective strategy to reduce emissions into water bodies and was the aim of this study. Wastewater from three health care facilities (nursing home, clinic with orthopaedic focus, and psychiatric clinic) was treated in lab-scale and semi-industrial trials. Biological treatment was performed via an ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor (UF-MBR), after which adsorption onto granular activated carbon (using rapid-small-scale column tests GAC-RSSCT), ozonation and a UV/H

Identifiants

pubmed: 32861185
pii: S0048-9697(20)34839-7
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141310
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Pharmaceutical Preparations 0
Waste Water 0
Water Pollutants, Chemical 0
Hydrogen Peroxide BBX060AN9V

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

141310

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Danièle Mousel (D)

Institute of Environmental Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany. Electronic address: daniele.mousel@rwth-aachen.de.

Daniel Bastian (D)

Institute of Environmental Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

Julian Firk (J)

Institute of Environmental Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

Laurence Palmowski (L)

Institute of Environmental Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

Johannes Pinnekamp (J)

Institute of Environmental Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

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