Removal efficiency of pharmaceuticals and personal care products with varying wastewater treatment processes and operating conditions--conception of a database and first results

We created a database in order to quantitatively assess the occurrence and removal efficiency of PPCPs in WWTPs. From 113 scientific publications, we compiled 5887 data on the concentrations and loads of PPCPs in WWTP influents and effluents, and on their removal efficiency. The first outputs of our...

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Published in:Water science and technology 2008, Vol.57 (1), p.49-56
Main Authors: Miege, C, Choubert, J.M, Ribeiro, L, Eusebe, M, Coquery, M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical wastewater
Consumer products
Detection
drugs
Efficiency
Effluents
Environmental Sciences
Household Products - analysis
Influents
personal care products
Pharmaceutical Preparations - chemistry
Pharmaceutical Preparations - isolation & purification
quantitative analysis
Removal
Scientific papers
Sludge
Waste Disposal, Fluid - methods
Wastewater
Wastewater treatment
Wastewater treatment plants
Water Pollutants, Chemical - chemistry
Water Pollutants, Chemical - isolation & purification
Water Purification - methods
Water treatment plants
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Summary:We created a database in order to quantitatively assess the occurrence and removal efficiency of PPCPs in WWTPs. From 113 scientific publications, we compiled 5887 data on the concentrations and loads of PPCPs in WWTP influents and effluents, and on their removal efficiency. The first outputs of our database include: (1) a list of the most frequently studied molecules, their frequency of detection, their mean concentration and removal in liquid influent and effluent; (2) a comparison of the removal efficiency for different WWTP processes; (3) a study of the influence of the operating conditions (sludge and hydraulic retention times).
ISSN:0273-1223
1996-9732
DOI:10.2166/wst.2008.823