Occurrence of endocrine disruptors in chemical industry wastewaters and their fate in treatment systems

Authors

Ceren Eropak Yılmazer¹ , Suna Çınar¹ , Ayşe Dudu Allar Emek¹ , Onur Kiraz¹ , Özlem Karahan Özgün² , Ercan Çitil¹ , Aybala Koç Orhon³ , Esra Şıltu³ , Sibel Mine Güçver³ , Cumali Kınacı³

1. ITUNOVA Technology Inc., Istanbul, Türkiye
2. Istanbul Technical University
3. Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Conference / event

11th IWA International Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro-Industry, October 2022 (Gdańsk, Poland)

Poster summary

Chemical industries manufacture a wide range of products, which periodically can change their production in terms of quality and quantity. Changing the production will affect the wastewater characterization. Besides organic load, chemical industry wastewater includes heavy metals, solvents, priority substances and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (EU BREF, 2006). Therefore, chemical industry needs to review the treatment process efficiency regularly (SUEZ, 2020). This study includes identifying the main EDCs in the effluents of two different chemical industry facilities, evaluating the treatment efficiencies of EDCs in conventional wastewater treatment systems and investigating the performance of treatment and to assess the post-treatment requirement to prevent pollution of natural resources.

Keywords

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), Chemical industry wastewater, Treatment efficiency

Research areas

Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sciences

References

1. Awaleh, M., & Soubaneh, Y. 2014. Waste Water Treatment in Chemical Industries: The Concept and Current Technologies. Hydrology Current Research, pp. 5:164.
2. Nasr, F., Doma, H., Abdel-Halim, H., & El-Shafai, S. 2007. Chemical industry wastewater treatment. Environmentalist, pp. 27:275–286.
3. EU BREF 2006 Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Reference Document on Best Available Techniques for the Manufacture of Organic Fine Chemicals. Report of the European Commission.
4. SUEZ 2020 https://www.suezwaterhandbook.com/processes-and-technologies/industrial-processes-and-effluent-treatment/chemical-industries/general

Funding

1. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry/Directorate General for Water Management

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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