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WATER RESEARCH
卷 207, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117819
关键词
Advanced oxidation; Photocatalysis; Biological treatment; Microbial community; Antibiotic resistance genes
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation [51778218]
- Science and Technology Innovation Plan of Hunan Province [2019JJ10001, 2020JJ6043, 2019RS3015]
This study developed a peroxydisulfate-coupled photocatalysis system to efficiently degrade antibiotics in wastewater. The pretreatment can enhance chemical oxygen demand removal and increase microbial diversity and richness in activated sludge, reducing the risk of antibiotic resistance gene dissemination. These findings highlight the importance of advanced oxidation technologies in pretreating antibiotics-containing wastewater for effective biological treatment.
The direct biological treatment of antibiotics containing wastewater brings about a potential risk of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) spread. Although advanced oxidation technologies based on photocatalysis generally appear effective at degrading antibiotics in wastewater, the fate of ARGs in succeeding biological treatment system is still unknown. Herein, a filter-membrane-like carbon cloth-immobilized Fe2O3/g-C3N4 photocatalyst is fabricated through immersion-calcination method. Peroxydisulfate-coupled photocatalysis system is developed to degrade tetracycline (TC, an emerging refractory antibiotic pollutant). The system can produce energetic active species (center dot OH, SO4-, h(+), O-2(-) and O-1(2)), exhibiting a superior performance towards TC degradation in static and continuous flow processes under visible-light irradiation. The pretreatment can eliminate the antibacterial activity of antibiotics wastewater, and the chemical oxygen demand removal is greatly enhanced in subsequent anaerobic or aerobic process. The microbial diversity and richness in activated sludge for pretreated water sample are significantly higher than those for the water sample without pretreatment. Meanwhile, the pretreatment can decrease the relative abundance of potential hosts of ARGs and reduce the emergence as well as dissemination risk of ARGs. This study uncovers the effect of pretreatment of antibiotics containing wastewater using advanced oxidation technologies on the treatment efficacy and antibiotic resistome fate in biological treatment system.
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