Is there a risk for the aquatic environment due to the existence of emerging organic contaminants in treated domestic wastewater? Greece as a case-study

Thomaidi, Vasiliki; Stasinakis, Athanasios S.; Borova, Viola L.; Thomaidis, Nikolaos S.

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2014.10.023

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“…Some of them are "classical" organic pollutants, as pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), while others can be classified into the wide group named emerging contaminants as, for example, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs, drugs of abuse, UV-filters, contrast agents for X-Ray, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as a huge number of transformation products (TP), which in many cases are still unknown (Moschet et al, 2014;Postigo and Barceló, 2015;Thomaidi et al, 2015). They can enter into the surface and groundwater from different pollution sources.…”

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Comprehensive monitoring of organic micro-pollutants in surface and groundwater in the surrounding of a solid-waste treatment plant of Castellón, Spain

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Cervera

Portolés

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Science of The Total Environment

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The solid-waste treatment plant of RECIPLASA is located in the municipality of Onda (Castellón province), which is an important agricultural area of Spain, with predominance of citrus crops. In this plant, all urban solid wastes from the town of Castellón (around 200.000 inhabitants) and other smaller towns as Almassora, Benicàssim, Betxí, Borriana, L'Alcora, Onda and Vila-Real are treated. In order to evaluate the potential impact of this plant on the surrounding water, both surface and groundwater, a comprehensive monitoring of organic pollutants has been carried out along 2011, 2012 and 2013. To this aim, an advanced analytical strategy was applied for wide-scope screening, consisting on the complementary use of liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) with quadrupole (Q)-time of flight analyser (TOF). A generic solid-phase extraction with Oasis HLB cartridges was applied prior to the chromatographic analysis. The screening included more than 1,500 organic pollutants as target compounds, such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs, drugs of abuse, UV-filters, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), among others. Pesticides, mainly herbicides, were the compounds more frequently detected. Other compounds as antioxidants, cosmetics, drugs of abuse, PAHs, pharmaceuticals and UV filters, were also identified in the screening though at much lower frequency.Once the screening was made, quantitative analysis focused on the compounds more frequently detected was subsequently applied using LC coupled to tandem MS with triple quadrupole analyzer. In this way, up to 24 pesticides and transformation products (TPs), 7 pharmaceuticals, one drug of abuse and its metabolite could be quantified at sub-ppb concentrations. Along the three years of study, ten compounds were found at 3 concentrations higher than 0.1 g/L. Most of them were pesticides and TPs, a fact that illustrates that the main source of pollution seems to be the agricultural activities in this area.

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Comprehensive monitoring of organic micro-pollutants in surface and groundwater in the surrounding of a solid-waste treatment plant of Castellón, Spain

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Cervera

Portolés

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Science of The Total Environment

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“…Em relação à cafeína, as concentrações no presente estudo (Tabela 3) estão abaixo daquelas encontradas na literatura para outros rios na cidade de Curitiba: Atuba A cafeína tem sido utilizada como indicador de contaminação por esgotos (FROEHNER et al, 2011;PUERA-RI et al, 2012;EDWARDS et al, 2015;EKKLESIA et al, 2015;KUZMANOVIC et al, 2015;PHILLIPS et al, 2015;SENTA et al, 2015;THOMAIDI et al, 2015), podendo, dessa forma, ser empregada por órgãos ambientais e companhias de saneamento como um parâmetro para verificação de ineficiência do sistema de esgotamento sanitário ou ocorrência de lançamentos clandestinos. Froehner et al (2011) encontraram uma relação positiva entre os parâmetros físico-químicos (nitrato e DBO), microbiológicos (coliformes termotolerantes) e a concentração de cafeína.…”

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“…Quando presente na água de rios, a cafeína costuma estar associada a outras substâncias que também possuem atividades citotóxicas e genotóxicas, como, por exemplo, anti-inflamatórios e bisfenol A (FROEHNER et al, 2011;PUERARI et al, 2012;EDWARDS et al, 2015;EKKLESIA et al, 2015;KUZMA-NOVIC et al, 2015;PHILLIPS et al, 2015;SENTA et al, 2015;THOMAIDI et al, 2015).…”

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Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Ambient. (Online)

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R e v i s t a B r a s i l e i r a d e C i ê n c i a s A m b i e n t a i sEditor Geral Maurício Dziedzic Editores InternacionaisGünter Gunkel -Alemanha Jose Alfaro Joins -Estados Unidos Manuela Morais -Portugal Oscar Parra -Chile Editores NacionaisAdriana Marques Rossetto Liliana Pena Naval Marco Aurélio da Silva Carvalho Filho Mário Augusto Gonçalves Jardim Tadeu Fabrício Malheiros Conselho Editorial EditorialPrezados leitores, É com satisfação que me dirijo ao público da Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais (RBCIAMB) para comemorar a conclusão de mais um ano de publicação. Ao longo de 2017, a equipe editorial alcançou sucesso na agilização do processo de avaliação dos artigos submetidos, cumpriu os prazos de publicação de todas as edições e fomentou a publicação de artigos de impacto científico significativo.Os critérios de pré-seleção dos artigos definidos em 2016 tornaram possível identificar logo após a submissão aqueles artigos com potencial para aprovação por revisores, diminuindo assim a demanda de trabalho destes e, consequentemente, os prazos de revisão.Em 2017 foram submetidos 90 artigos à revista, 45 dos quais não atenderam a pelo menos um dos critérios de pré-seleção, que são:• Pertinência: o tema central do artigo é ambiental;• Relevância: o artigo apresenta contribuição científica significativa para a área e demonstra isso;• Ineditismo: não há plágio. Se o artigo já tiver sido apresentado em congresso, a versão para a revista deve ter pelo menos 50% de diferença em relação ao artigo de congresso;• Ética: o trabalho não faz promoção de indivíduos, organizações e/ou produtos, nem críticas indevidas a eles;• Redação: o trabalho está escrito em bom português, com estrutura lógica e de forma clara e concisa.Entre os 45 artigos restantes, sete foram rejeitados após avaliação por pares, 13 foram aceitos e 25 encontram-se em fase de avaliação, que inclui aqueles de posse de revisores (14), editores (8) e autores (3). Todos os artigos recebidos em 2017 já passaram pelo processo de pré-seleção e/ou foram rejeitados, ou encaminhados para revisão por pares.É importante lembrar, mais uma vez, que a função da revista é a divulgação científica. Para tanto, faz-se fundamental que os trabalhos submetidos tragam contribuição científica para a área. Trabalhos de aplicação de princípios conhecidos não representam contribuição científica e não são aceitos para publicação. Exemplo comum desse tipo de trabalho são os diagnósticos, recebidos em grande número pela revista, mas que não promovem o avanço do conhecimento científico.A tabela com os critérios de avaliação de artigos, disponível no regulamento da revista (http://abes-dn.org.br/publicacoes/rbciamb/Regulamento%20RBCiamb.pdf), apresenta uma lista detalhada dos itens que são verificados. É recomendável que os autores utilizem esses critérios para efetuar a autoavaliação de seus trabalhos antes da submissão, pois a observância desses critérios pode acelerar substancialmente o processo de revisão.Ciente da importância da RBCIAMB para os programas de pós-graduaçã...

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“…Emerging synthetic chemicals have entered into the environment through industrial activities [6, 7]. One of these emerging synthetic compounds is phthalic acid esters (PAEs), commonly named phthalates [8], which are widely used as plasticizers [9, 10] and globally applied in large quantities to make products such as plastics, pesticides, adhesives, paints, and cosmetics [11–13].…”

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A comparative study of anaerobic fixed film baffled reactor and up-flow anaerobic fixed film fixed bed reactor for biological removal of diethyl phthalate from wastewater: a performance, kinetic, biogas, and metabolic pathway study

Yousefzadeh

Ahmadi

Gholami

et al. 2017

Biotechnol Biofuels

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BackgroundPhthalic acid esters, including diethyl phthalate (DEP), which are considered as top-priority and hazardous pollutants, have received significant attention over the last decades. It is vital for industries to select the best treatment technology, especially when the DEP concentration in wastewater is high. Meanwhile, anaerobic biofilm-based reactors are considered as a promising option. Therefore, in the present study, for the biological removal of DEP from synthetic wastewater, two different anaerobic biofilm-based reactors, including anaerobic fixed film baffled reactor (AnFFBR) and up-flow anaerobic fixed film fixed bed reactor (UAnFFFBR), were compared from kinetic and performance standpoints. As in the previous studies, only the kinetic coefficients have been calculated and the relationship between kinetic coefficients and their interpretation has not been evaluated, the other aim of the present study was to fill this research gap.ResultsIn optimum conditions, 90.31 and 86.91% of COD as well as 91.11 and 88.72% of DEP removal were achieved for the AnFFBR and UAnFFFBR, respectively. According to kinetic coefficients (except biomass yield), the AnFFBR had better performance as it provided a more favorable condition for microbial growth. The Grau model was selected as the best mathematical model for designing and predicting the bioreactors’ performance due to its high coefficients of determination (0.97 < R 2). With regard to the insignificant variations of the calculated Grau kinetic coefficients (K G) when the organic loading rate (with constant HRT) increased, it can be concluded that both of the bioreactors can tolerate high organic loading rate and their performance is not affected by the applied DEP concentrations.ConclusionsBoth the bioreactors were capable of treating low-to-high strength DEP wastewater; however, according to the experimental results and obtained kinetic coefficients, the AnFFBR indicated higher performance. Although the AnFFBR can be considered as a safer treatment option than the UAnFFFBR due to its lower DEP concentrations in sludge, the UAnFFFBR had lower VSS/TSS ratio and sludge yield, which could make it more practical for digestion. Finally, both the bioreactors showed considerable methane yield; however, compared to the UAnFFFBR, the AnFFBR had more potential for bioenergy production. Although both the selected bioreactors achieved nearly 90% of DEP removal, they can only be considered as pre-treatment methods according to the standard regulations and should be coupled with further technology.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13068-017-0826-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Is there a risk for the aquatic environment due to the existence of emerging organic contaminants in treated domestic wastewater? Greece as a case-study

Cited by 170 publications

References 31 publications

Comprehensive monitoring of organic micro-pollutants in surface and groundwater in the surrounding of a solid-waste treatment plant of Castellón, Spain

Comprehensive monitoring of organic micro-pollutants in surface and groundwater in the surrounding of a solid-waste treatment plant of Castellón, Spain

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A comparative study of anaerobic fixed film baffled reactor and up-flow anaerobic fixed film fixed bed reactor for biological removal of diethyl phthalate from wastewater: a performance, kinetic, biogas, and metabolic pathway study

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