A huge amount of xenobiotic compounds are discharged in sewages, but since municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants are not designed to reduce their concentrations, they, in the main part, are able to reach the water compartment. Under this scenario an Italian National Research Project founded by the Italian Ministry for the Education, Research and the University, started on 2007 involving researchers from the Universities of Catania (coordinator), Naples Federico II, Florence and Insubria as well as Polytechnic of Milan, aiming to provide an important contribution in the individuation, verification and validation of new methods for the analysis, the control and the treatment of xenobiotic compounds in civil and industrial wastewaters. Researchers from the University of Palermo and Ferrara subsequently joined to the project. Almost any of the research units focused on MBR performance in dealing with different xenobiotic compounds. This article provides an overview of some of the research results focusing on the fate of two representative classes of xenobiotics, i.e. pharmaceutics and metal(s) over different wastewater treatments, all including a membrane biological reactor (MBR) phase.
Use of MBR for xenobiotcs removal from civil and industrial wastewaters: first results from an Italian national reseach project
CONTI, FABIO;
2010-01-01
Abstract
A huge amount of xenobiotic compounds are discharged in sewages, but since municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants are not designed to reduce their concentrations, they, in the main part, are able to reach the water compartment. Under this scenario an Italian National Research Project founded by the Italian Ministry for the Education, Research and the University, started on 2007 involving researchers from the Universities of Catania (coordinator), Naples Federico II, Florence and Insubria as well as Polytechnic of Milan, aiming to provide an important contribution in the individuation, verification and validation of new methods for the analysis, the control and the treatment of xenobiotic compounds in civil and industrial wastewaters. Researchers from the University of Palermo and Ferrara subsequently joined to the project. Almost any of the research units focused on MBR performance in dealing with different xenobiotic compounds. This article provides an overview of some of the research results focusing on the fate of two representative classes of xenobiotics, i.e. pharmaceutics and metal(s) over different wastewater treatments, all including a membrane biological reactor (MBR) phase.
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