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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 1100-1106Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es902575d
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- Institut Languedocien de recherche sur l'Eau et I'Environnement (ILEE, Montpellier, France)
- Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche du Gouvernement Francais, France
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The sorption of hydrophobic micropollutants in sludge is one of the major mechanisms which drive their fate within wastewater treatment systems. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of both sludge and micropollutant characteristics on the equilibria of sorption to particles and to dissolved and colloidal matter (DCM). For this purpose, the equilibrium constants were measured for 13 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, 5 polychlorobiphenyls and the nonylphenol, and five different sludge types encountered in treatment systems: a primary sludge, a secondary sludge, the same secondary sludge after thermal treatment after anaerobic digestion, and after both treatments. After thermal treatment, no more sorption to DCM was observed. Anaerobic biological treatment was shown to enhance micropollutants sorption to particles and to DCM of one logarithmic unit, due to matter transformation. Partial least-squares linear regressions of sorption data as a function of micropollutant and sludge proper-des revealed that sludge physical and chemical characteristics were more influential than micropollutant characteristics. Two models were provided to predict the sorption of such micropollutants in any sludge. To our knowledge,this is the first time that a three-compartment approach is used to accurately model micropollutant sorption in sludge and to understand the driving mechanisms.
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