Comparison of Steroid Hormone Concentrations in Domestic and Hospital Wastewater Treatment Plants
| Autor: | H.F. De Brabander, Herlinde Noppe, Willy Verstraete, Bram Pauwels |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Environmental Engineering medicine.drug_class medicine.medical_treatment Biology Membrane bioreactor Steroid hormone Endocrinology Animal science Wastewater Estrogen Internal medicine Ethinylestradiol medicine Environmental Chemistry Sewage treatment Effluent Testosterone General Environmental Science Civil and Structural Engineering medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Engineering. 134:933-936 |
| ISSN: | 1943-7870 0733-9372 |
| DOI: | 10.1061/(asce)0733-9372(2008)134:11(933) |
| Popis: | Influent and effluent samples originating from two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) (treating hospital wastewater and domestic wastewater, Belgium) have been analyzed in order to estimate their steroid hormone content. The natural estrogens estrone (E1), 17β -estradiol (E2), and the synthetic 17α -ethinylestradiol (EE2) together with other steroid hormones progesterone (P) and testosterone (T) metabolites were detected in these samples. The hormone concentrations in both the hospital and the domestic WWTP samples were not significantly different and ranged from 100 ng P/L. E2 was detected once at a concentration of 17 ng∕L . In the domestic WWTP which comprises a conventional activated sludge treatment in parallel with a membrane bioreactor, no differences in estrogen removal efficiency could be observed for both treatments. In comparison to chemical analysis data, the Yeast Estrogen Screen (YES) appears to underest... |
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