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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 295, Issue -, Pages 22-28Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.04.012
Keywords
Acute toxicity; Genotoxicity; Sewage; Tertiary treatment; Inorganic ion
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [51378066, 21077011]
- New Century Excellent Talents in University [NECT-11-0044]
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Two acute toxicity tests (luminescent bacteria assay and cladoceran assay) and one genotoxicity test (broad bean assay) were used to evaluate whole effluent toxicity during the standard anion exchange resin-based pilot-scale sewage tertiary treatment that stably achieved significant dissolved organic carbon and inorganic ions reduction. The effect of six representative inorganic ions (i.e., Cl-, SO42-, NO3--N, NO2--N, NH4+-N and PO43--P) on the acute toxicity and genotoxicity was further investigated. Significant whole effluent genotoxicity reduction was observed as an similar to 57% micronucleated cell frequency reduction and similar to 46% mitotic index increment during the pilot-scale periods, which should be attributed to significant organic removal since no significant (p >= 0.116) increase in genotoxicity was observed with the increase in these ionic concentrations. However, no significant (p >= 0.14) reductions were observed for whole effluent acute toxicity using two acute toxicity assays during the pilot-scale periods, and these inorganic ions, especially NH4+-N, contributed considerably to the acute toxicity. Based on Pearson correlation coefficients, whole effluent acute toxicity showed significant positive (p < 0.001, r >= 0.758) correlations with the NH4+-N concentration. Two optimal models were finally developed using step-wise multiple linear regression to predict the whole effluent acute toxicity via NH4+-N concentrations. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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