Fate of hormones and pharmaceuticals during combined anaerobic treatment and nitrogen removal by partial nitritation-anammox in vacuum collected black water

Degradation of ibuprofen by a synergistic UV/Fe(III)/Oxone process

“…Industrial pollution comes from the release of untreated effluents from the pharmaceuticals companies while domestic contamination is due to the excretion by humans after partial metabolism and inappropriate disposal of IBP [9]. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been found incapable to completely remove IBP via biodegradation [10][11][12]. Thus, IBP has been frequently and extensively detected in surface waters and even in drinking water due to continuous input, incomplete elimination of WWTP and drinking water treatment [13][14][15][16][17].…”

Modelling the photochemical fate of ibuprofen in surface waters

“…For instance, it has been the sixth most abundant pharmaceutical detected in the influent flow of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Italy . Although it is susceptible to biodegradation (Tiehm et al, 2011;de Graaf et al, 2011), IBP is only partially removed by WWTPs (Oulton et al, 2010;Morasch et al, 2010) and the treatment efficiency undergoes a considerable decrease during the winter months Santos et al, 2009), when the IBP environmental inputs tend to increase considerably (Daneshvar et al, 2010). The combination of widespread use and incomplete WWTP elimination results into an extensive occurrence of IBP in surface waters.…”

Aerobic treatment of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in landfill leachate

“…Degradation was found for acetylsalicylic acid, while a mixture of degradation and abiotic removal mechanisms on other pharmaceuticals was observed during an anaerobic degradability study by Musson et al [21]. The fate of hormones and pharmaceuticals during combined anaerobic treatment and nitrogen removal in black water has been investigated by de Graaff et al [23]. They found that only a few compounds were partly removed, and anaerobic treatment was effective only to remove the majority of paracetamol.…”