Biodegradation of pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater by staged Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MBBR)

Water Research

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 293-302

  Casas, Mònica Escolà ^a   Chhetri, Ravi Kumar ^b   Ooi, Gordon ^a   Hansen, Kamilla M S ^b   Litty, Klaus ^c   Christensson, Magnus ^d   Kragelund, Caroline ^c   Andersen, Henrik R ^b   Bester, Kai ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Conjugates; Degradation kinetics; Hospital wastewater; Pharmaceuticals; X ray contrast media

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEGRADATION; DRUG PRODUCTS; HOSPITALS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTODEGRADATION; PILOT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

CONJUGATES; CONTINUOUS-FLOW EXPERIMENTS; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DEGRADATION RATE CONSTANTS; HOSPITAL WASTEWATER; MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTORS; ORGANIC MICRO-POLLUTANTS; X RAY CONTRAST MEDIA;

RATE CONSTANTS;

ATENOLOL; AZITHROMYCIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CITALOPRAM; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIATRIZOATE; DICLOFENAC; DRUG; ERYTHROMYCIN; IBUPROFEN; IOHEXOL; IOMEPROL; IOPAMIDOL; IOPROMIDE; METOPROLOL; PHENAZONE; PROPRANOLOL; SOTALOL; SULFADIAZINE; SULFAMETHIZOLE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRAMADOL; TRIMETHOPRIM; VENLAFAXINE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTIBIOTICS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; HOSPITAL SECTOR; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DRUG DEGRADATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL WASTE; HOSPITAL WASTEWATER; HUMAN; MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTOR; NITRIFICATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATE CONSTANT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; DENMARK; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOSPITAL; METABOLISM; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; HOSPITALS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84936881739     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.06.042     Document Type: Article

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