Partitioning of 13 Kinds of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in a Sewage Treatment Plant

Author

Shao, Xiao-Ling ; Ma, Jun

Author_Institution

Sch. of The Environ., Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The partitioning of 13 kinds of representative endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) between liquid and solid phases of wastewaters in a sewage treatment plant (STP) were studied. It was found that almost all EDCs´ partition coefficients (D_p) between aquatic and solid phases have been observed to have a negative relationship with the concentrations of suspended solids (SS) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC). While the effect of octanol/water partition coefficient (K_ow) and solubility on D_p is minimal. It seems that DOC and SS play important roles on the fate and transport of these EDCs in STPs.

Keywords

chemical hazards; health hazards; sewage treatment; solubility; toxicology; wastewater treatment; DOC; EDC; STP; dissolved organic carbon; endocrine disrupting chemicals; octanol partition coefficient; partition coefficients; sewage treatment plant; solubility; suspended solids; wastewaters; water partition coefficient; Chemical analysis; Chemical technology; Effluents; Endocrine system; Filters; Humans; Sewage treatment; Solids; Solvents; Wastewater;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5517440

Filename

5517440