Effective elimination of fifteen relevant pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater from Colombia by combination of a biological system with a sonochemical process
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Effective elimination of fifteen relevant pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater from Colombia by combination of a biological system with a sonochemical processAutoría
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0048-9697; 1879-1026Cita bibliográfica
Serna-Galvis, Efraím A., et al. "Effective elimination of fifteen relevant pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater from Colombia by combination of a biological system with a sonochemical process." Science of The Total Environment, 2019, vol. 670, p. 623-632Tipo de documento
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This work presents the treatment of selected emerging concern pharmaceuticals in real hospital wastewater (HWW) from Tumaco-Colombia by combination of a biological system with a sonochemical process. Fifteen compounds, ... [+]
This work presents the treatment of selected emerging concern pharmaceuticals in real hospital wastewater (HWW) from Tumaco-Colombia by combination of a biological system with a sonochemical process. Fifteen compounds, commonly present in HWW, were considered: acetaminophen, diclofenac, carbamazepine, venlafaxine, loratadine, ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, valsartan, irbesartan, sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, clarithromycin, azithromycin, erythromycin and clindamycin. Initially, HWW was characterized in terms of global parameters and the pharmaceuticals content. HWW contained a moderate amount of organic matter (i.e., total organic carbon: 131.56 mg L−1 (C)) mainly associated to biodegradable components. However, the most of pharmaceuticals were found at levels upper than their predicted no effect concentration (PNEC). Then, a conventional biological treatment was applied to the HWW. After 36 h, such process mainly removed biodegradable substances, but had a limited action on the pharmaceuticals. The resultant biotreated water was submitted to the sonochemical process (375 kHz and 88 W L−1, 1.5 h), which due to its chemical (i.e., radical attacks) and physical (i.e., suspended solids disaggregation) effects induced a considerable pharmaceuticals degradation (pondered removal: 58.82%), demonstrating the complementarity of the proposed combination. Afterwards, Fe2+ (5 ppm) and UVC light (4 W) were added to the sonochemical system (generating sono-photo-Fenton process), which significantly increased up to 82.86% the pondered pharmaceuticals removal. Subsequently, to understand fundamental aspects of the pharmaceuticals degradations, a model compound (norfloxacin) in distilled water was treated by sonochemical system, sono-photo-Fenton process and their sub-systems (i.e., sono-Fenton and UVC alone). This allowed proving the hydroxyl radical action in sonochemical treatment, plus the contribution of Fenton reaction and direct photodegradation in the pharmaceuticals removal by sono-photo-Fenton. Finally, it was found that 91.13% of the initial pharmaceuticals load in HWW was removed by the biological/sono-photo-Fenton combination. The high pollutants abatement evidenced that this combination is a powerful alternative for removing pharmaceuticals from complex-matrix waters, such as raw HWW. [-]
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Science of The Total Environment, 2019, vol. 670, p. 623-632Proyecto de investigación
The authors thank Universidad de Antioquia UdeA for the support provided to their research group through “PROGRAMA DE SOSTENIBILIDAD” and the financing from COLCIENCIAS through the projects No. 111577757323 and No. 123371552034. The author from Universidad Antonio Nariño acknowledges the financial support from UAN through the project No. 2018208. The authors from UJI acknowledge the financial support from Generalitat Valenciana (Research Group of Excellence, PrometeoII/2014/023). E.A. Serna-Galvis thanks COLCIENCIAS for his PhD fellowship (Convocatoria 647 de 2014). The authors acknowledge the experimental helping on ultrasound procedures of Diana Montoya-Rodriguez (Student of Chemistry program in the University of Antioquia).Derechos de acceso
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