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Title
First Results on the Removal of Emerging Micropollutants from Municipal Centrate by Microalgae
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Abstract
The results of a first campaign of sampling and analyses of emerging micropollutants in the influent (municipal centrate) and effluent of a pilot MBP raceway are reported. The algal population was chiefly made of Chlorella spp. and the pilot worked satisfactorily for the removal of nitrogen. 14 emerging micropollutants were analysed. Average removal efficiencies exceeding 80 % were observed for diclofenac, lamotrigine, ketoprofene, clarithromycin. For such compounds the variability of removal efficiency was also reduced, with respect to the other tested molecules, and was particularly low for diclofenac and lamotrigine. Removal efficiencies over 50 % were measured for azithromycin, metoprolol and irbesartan but with strong variability. Lower removal efficiencies were observed for amisulpride and 5-methylbenzotriazole, while for the remaining compounds the concentrations in the effluent were higher than in the influent.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Rigas Tehniskas Universitates zinatniskie raksti : Scientific proceedings of Riga Technical University. Series 13. 13. serija = Environmental and climate technologies : Environmental and climate technologies / Rigas Tehniska universitate; Rigas Tehniska universitate. - Riga, 2008, currens
Rigas Tehniskas Universitates Zinatniskie Raksti
Publication
Riga : Izd-ba RTU , 2022
ISSN
2255-8837
DOI
10.2478/RTUCCT-2022-0004
Volume/pages
26 :1 (2022) , p. 36-45
ISI
000750704400001
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Last edited 04.01.2024
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