Comparative Analysis of Wastewater Toxicity Reduction in 12 Industrial Park Treatment Plants
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Comparative analysis of toxicity reduction of wastewater in twelve industrial park wastewater treatment plants based on battery of toxicity assays
Yue Yu, Bing Wu, Linmiao Jiang, Xu-Xiang Zhang, Hong-Qiang Ren, Mei Li
Abstract:
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in industrial parks provide centralized treatment for industrial and domestic wastewater. However, the information on toxicity reduction of wastewater and its correlation with treatment process in industrial park is limited.
This study compared the toxicity reduction of wastewater in 12 industrial park WWTPs based on battery of toxicity assays. Nine toxic endpoints involving microorganism, phytoplankton, zooplankton, plant and human cell lines were applied. All the influents of WWTPs induced high toxicities, which were significantly reduced after the treatments from 7 of the studied WWTPs.
However, the effluents of five WWTPs induced higher toxicity in one or more toxic endpoints compared to the influents. This study also found that most of anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (A2/O)-based processes had good removal efficiency of wastewater toxicity, while the sequencing batch reactor (SBR)-based processes had the lowest removal efficiency. Moreover, low correlation coefficients were obtained among all toxic endpoints, indicating that battery of toxicity assays was necessary to completely characterize the toxicity and risk of wastewater in industrial parks.
This study shed new lights to the toxicity reduction of wastewater and its correlation with treatment process, which is very useful for the design, management and operation of WWTPs in industrial parks.
Scientific Reports volume 9, March 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40154-z
Source: Nature.com
Taxonomy
- Industrial Wastewater Treatment
- Industrial Water Treatment
- Industrial Water Treatment
- Industrial Water Reuse
- Industrial Water Managment
- Toxins