期刊
CHEMOSPHERE
卷 83, 期 5, 页码 713-719出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.02.004
关键词
Antibiotics; Constructed wetlands; Urban wastewater; Removal; WWTP
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Science [CTM2005-06457-C05-03, CTM2008-06676-C05-03/TECNO]
- Junta de Castilla y Leon [LE037A10-2]
- Spanish Ministry of Education
Seven mesocosm-scale constructed wetlands (CWs), differing in their design characteristics, were set up in the open air to assess their efficiency to remove antibiotics from urban raw wastewater. A conventional wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) was simultaneously monitored. The experiment took place in autumn. An analytical methodology including HPLC-MS/MS was developed to measure antibiotic concentrations in the soluble water fraction, in the suspended solids fraction and in the WWTP sludge. Considering the soluble water fraction, the only easily eliminated antibiotics in the WWTP were doxycycline (61 +/- 38%) and sulfamethoxazole (60 +/- 26%). All the studied types of CWs were efficient for the removal of sulfamethoxazole (59 +/- 30-87 +/- 41%), as found in the WWTP, and, in addition, they removed trimethoprim (65 +/- 21-96 +/- 29%). The elimination of other antibiotics in CWs was limited by the specific system-configuration: amoxicillin (45 +/- 15%) was only eliminated by a free-water (FW) subsurface flow (SSF) CW planted with Typha angustifolia; doxycycline was removed in FW systems planted with T. angustifolia (65 +/- 34-75 +/- 40%), in a Phragmites australis-floating macrophytes system (62 +/- 31%) and in conventional horizontal SSF-systems (71 +/- 39%); clarithromycin was partially eliminated by an unplanted FW-SSF system (50 +/- 18%); erythromycin could only be removed by a P. australis-horizontal SSF system (64 +/- 30%); and ampicillin was eliminated by a T. angustifolia-floating macrophytes system (29 +/- 4%). Lincomycin was not removed by any of the systems (WWTP or CWs). The presence or absence of plants, the vegetal species (T. angustifolia or P. australis), the flow type and the CW design characteristics regulated the specific removal mechanisms. Therefore, CWs are not an overall solution to remove antibiotics from urban wastewater during cold seasons. However, more studies are needed to assess their ability in warmer periods and to determine the behaviour of full-scale systems. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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