Water contamination by micropollutnats has been increasing
lately. Conventional wastewater treatment plants are not
designed to efficiently remove mircopollutants, which leads to
their effluent into surface water. Low concentrations of
micropollutants have been detected even in drinking water.
Advanced oxidation processes have shown great potential in
degrading micropollutants effectively.
This thesis describes selected micropollutnats, different types
of advanced oxidation processes and their practical usage. In
the experimental part, the effectivity of ozonation to degrade
organic micropollutants is studied. In vitro bioassays
utilizing cell lines hERα HeLa-9903 and CAFLUX are used in the
experiments.