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Occurrence, fate and effects of Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in wastewater treatment plants: A review

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 194, Issue -, Pages 281-293

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.07.014

Keywords

Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate; Toxicity; Wastewater treatment process

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  1. National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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Phthalates, such as Di (2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate (DEHP) are compounds extensively used as plasticizer for long time around the world. Due to the extensive usage, DEHP is found in many surface waters (0.013 -18.5 mu g/L), wastewaters (0.716-122 mu g/L), landfill leachate (88-460 mu g/L), sludge (12-1250 mg/kg), soil (2-10 mg/kg). DEHP is persistent in the environment and the toxicity of the byproducts resulting from the degradation of DEHP sometime exacerbates the parent compound toxicity. Water/Wastewater treatment processes might play a key role in delivering safe, reliable supplies of water to households, industry and in safeguarding the quality of water in rivers, lakes and aquifers. This review addresses state of knowledge concerning the worldwide production, occurrence, fate and effects of DEHP in the environment. Moreover, the fate and behavior of DEHP in various treatment processes, including biological, physicochemical and advanced processes are reviewed and comparison (qualitative and quantitative) has been done between the processes. The trends and perspectives for treatment of wastewaters contaminated by DEHP are also analyzed in this review. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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