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Xenobiotics in the urban water cycle: mass flows, environmental processes, mitigation and treatment strategies

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The presence of xenobiotics in the aquatic environment is seen as one of the biggest challenges for a sustainable water future. Thus, there is a need to understand, in an integrated manner, the sources, flow paths, fate and effects of xenobiotics in the urban water cycle.

This book is an authoritative and comprehensive reference source covering:

-occurrence, sources and fluxes of xenobiotics in urban waters

-processes concerning the fate and transport of xenobiotics, mass flows and transformation products

-mitigation, treatment methods and systems for the removal of xenobiotics

-risk assessment methodologies and risk management

-information on source control and mitigation measures

The book contains a wealth of information on some of the compounds most frequently found in urban water systems, and of special interest will be the chapters dealing with compounds that have only recently been investigated, such as illicit drugs, scents, and toxins.

The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, municipal authorities, and international policy-makers.

Author(s): Kai Bester, Christa S. McArdell, Cajsa Wahlberg, Thomas D. Bucheli (auth.), Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Kai Bester, Klaus Kümmerer (eds.)
Series: Environmental pollution 16
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 507
City: Dordrecht; New York
Tags: Environment, general; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Ecotoxicology; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Quantitative Mass Flows of Selected Xenobiotics in Urban Waters and Waste Water Treatment Plants....Pages 3-26
Identifying and Classifying the Sources and Uses of Xenobiotics in Urban Environments....Pages 27-50
Illicit Drugs in the Urban Water Cycle....Pages 51-71
Precious Metals in Urban Aquatic Systems: Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium: Sources, Occurrence, Bioavailability and Effects....Pages 73-86
Fate and Effects of Little Investigated Scents in the Aquatic Environment....Pages 87-100
Sources and Occurrence of Cyanotoxins Worldwide....Pages 101-127
Occurrence and Measurements of Organic Xenobiotic Compounds in Harbour and Coastal Sediments....Pages 129-145
Determination of Sources and Emissions of Persistent Organic Contaminants by Means of Sewage Sludge: Results from a Monitoring Network....Pages 147-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Metabolic and Co-metabolic Degradation of Industrially Important Chlorinated Organics Under Aerobic Conditions....Pages 161-178
Photochemical Transformation of Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment: Reaction Pathways and Intermediates....Pages 179-194
The Challenge of the Identification and Quantification of Transformation Products in the Aquatic Environment Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry....Pages 195-211
Transport and Fate of Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Studies in Halle/Saale and Leipzig (Germany)....Pages 213-226
Pharmaceutical Contaminants in Urban Water Cycles: A Discussion of Novel Concepts for Environmental Risk Assessment....Pages 227-243
Hydroxy Benzoate Preservatives (Parabens) in the Environment: Data for Environmental Toxicity Assessment....Pages 245-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Efficiency of Removal of Compounds with Estrogenic Activity During Wastewater Treatment: Effects of Various Removal Techniques....Pages 261-282
Criteria for Designing Sewage Treatment Plants for Enhanced Removal of Organic Micropollutants....Pages 283-306
Xenobiotics Removal by Membrane Technology: An Overview....Pages 307-338
Membrane BioReactors: A Cost-Effective Solution to Enhance the Removal of Xenobiotics from Urban Wastewaters?....Pages 339-354
Removal of Xenobiotics from Wastewater in Sequencing Batch Reactors: Conventional and Two-Phase Configurations....Pages 355-374
Fate and Occurrence of Surfactants-Derived Alkylphenolic Compounds in Conventional and Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Wastewater Treatment Plants....Pages 375-385
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Removal of Xenobiotic Compounds from Water and Wastewater by Advanced Oxidation Processes....Pages 387-412
Biological, Chemical and Photochemical Treatment of Commercially Important Naphthalene Sulphonates....Pages 413-430
Uptake of Xenobiotics from Polluted Waters by Plants....Pages 431-444
Treatment Techniques and Analysis of Stormwater Run-off from Roads in Hamburg, Germany....Pages 445-461
Front Matter....Pages 463-463
Options for Mitigation: An Overview of Measures....Pages 465-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
Outlook....Pages 483-485
Erratum to: Chapter 12 Transport and Fate of Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Studies in Halle/Saale and Leipzig (Germany)....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 487-507