OLEJNÍČKOVÁ, Zuzana, Milada VÁVROVÁ, Josef ČÁSLAVSKÝ, J. MEGA and Zdeněk ŠIMEK. ASSESSMENT OF DRINKING WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES TO REMOVE ESTROGENS. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ECOLOGY. SOFIA (BULGARIA): SCIBULCOM LTD, 2015, vol. 16, No 3, p. 861-867. ISSN 1311-5065.
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Original name ASSESSMENT OF DRINKING WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES TO REMOVE ESTROGENS
Authors OLEJNÍČKOVÁ, Zuzana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Milada VÁVROVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Josef ČÁSLAVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic), J. MEGA (203 Czech Republic) and Zdeněk ŠIMEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ECOLOGY, SOFIA (BULGARIA), SCIBULCOM LTD, 2015, 1311-5065.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher Bulgaria
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 0.734
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/15:00081603
Organization unit Faculty of Science
UT WoS 000363091800006
Keywords in English estrogens; drinking water treatment technologies; HPLC/MS
Tags AKR, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Michaela Hylsová, Ph.D., učo 211937. Changed: 16/3/2016 16:59.
Abstract
Recently, increasing attention is being paid to the presence of estrogens (female sex hormones) in the environment, especially in aquatic ecosystem. Their occurrence in drinking water is also disturbing because it can have consequences to human health. Various pieces of information, not always comparable, can be found in a literature according to estrogens behaviour during drinking water treatment. Therefore, we performed technological tests on laboratory scale to assess the ability of coagulation using ferric sulphate as a coagulant, powdered activated carbon adsorption and ozonation to remove beta-estradiol and ethinylestradiol from artificially contaminated water. The analytical procedure consisting of solid-phase extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometric detection was selected as a suitable tool for quantification of target compounds in water under technological tests. The removal efficiency of coagulation procedure approximately at the level of reduced values of characteristic indicators of non-specific organic matter content (CODMn, A(254), colour) -26.39 and 11.62% for beta-estradiol and ethinylestradiol, respectively, was found. On the other hand, the lowest operationally useable dosages of activated carbon or ozone led to almost complete elimination of tested compounds -99.96-99.99 and 90.27-90.92%, respectively.
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GA13-20357S, research and development projectName: Studium distribuce steroidních látek ve složkách pevných environmentálních matric.
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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