Modelling micro-pollutant fate in wastewater collection and treatment systems: status and challenges

This paper provides a comprehensive summary on modelling of micro-pollutants' (MPs) fate and transport in wastewater. It indicates the motivations of MP modelling and summarises and illustrates the current status. Finally, some recommendations are provided to improve and diffuse the use of such...

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Published in:Water science and technology 2013-01, Vol.67 (1), p.1-15
Main Authors: PLOSZ, B. G, BENEDETTI, L, DAIGGER, G. T, LANGFORD, K. H, LARSEN, H. F, MONTEITH, H, ORT, C, SETH, R, STEYER, J.-P, VANROLLEGHEM, P. A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activated carbon
Anaerobiosis
Applied sciences
Bioreactors
Chemical oxygen demand
Cities
Contaminants
Costs
Environmental engineering
Environmental Monitoring
Environmental risk
Environmental Sciences
European Union
Exact sciences and technology
Flame retardants
General purification processes
Global environmental pollution
Life Sciences
Micropollutants
Modelling
Models, Theoretical
North America
Organic chemicals
Personal grooming
Pollutant removal
Pollutants
Pollution
Pollution dispersion
Quality assessment
Regional analysis
Removal
Risk Assessment
Urban areas
Waste Disposal, Fluid - legislation & jurisprudence
Waste Disposal, Fluid - methods
Wastewater
Wastewater collection
Wastewater treatment
Wastewaters
Water Pollutants, Chemical - chemistry
Water treatment
Water treatment and pollution
Wood preservatives
Xenobiotics - chemistry
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Summary:This paper provides a comprehensive summary on modelling of micro-pollutants' (MPs) fate and transport in wastewater. It indicates the motivations of MP modelling and summarises and illustrates the current status. Finally, some recommendations are provided to improve and diffuse the use of such models. In brief, we conclude that, in order to predict the contaminant removal in centralised treatment works, considering the dramatic improvement in monitoring and detecting MPs in wastewater, more mechanistic approaches should be used to complement conventional, heuristic and other fate models. This is crucial, as regional risk assessments and model-based evaluations of pollution discharge from urban areas can potentially be used by decision makers to evaluate effluent quality regulation, and assess upgrading requirements, in the future.
ISSN:0273-1223
1996-9732
DOI:10.2166/wst.2012.562