J 2015

ASSESSMENT OF DRINKING WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES TO REMOVE ESTROGENS

OLEJNÍČKOVÁ, Zuzana, Milada VÁVROVÁ, Josef ČÁSLAVSKÝ, J. MEGA, Zdeněk ŠIMEK et. al.

Basic information

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

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Bulgaria

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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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

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 16/3/2016 16:59, Mgr. Michaela Hylsová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

GA13-20357S, research and development project
Name: Studium distribuce steroidních látek ve složkách pevných environmentálních matric.
Investor: Czech Science Foundation