Publication detail

Assessment of drinking water treatment technologies to remove estrogens

OLEJNÍČKOVÁ, Z. VÁVROVÁ, M. ČÁSLAVSKÝ, J. MEGA, J. ŠIMEK, Z.

Original Title

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Recently, increasing attention is being paid to the presence of estrogens (female sex hormones) in the environment, especially in aquatic ecosystem. Their occurrence in drinking water is also disturbing because it can have consequences to human health. Various pieces of information, not always comparable, can be found in a literature according to estrogens behaviour during drinking water treatment. Therefore, we performed technological tests on laboratory scale to assess the ability of coagulation using ferric sulphate as a coagulant, powdered activated carbon adsorption and ozonation to remove β-estradiol and ethinylestradiol from artificially contaminated water. The analytical procedure consisting of solid-phase extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometric detection was selected as a suitable tool for quantification of target compounds in water under technological tests.

Keywords

estrogens; endocrine disrupting compounds; HPLC/MS; drinking water treatment technologies

Authors

OLEJNÍČKOVÁ, Z.; VÁVROVÁ, M.; ČÁSLAVSKÝ, J.; MEGA, J.; ŠIMEK, Z.

RIV year

2015

Released

1. 7. 2015

ISBN

1311-5065

Periodical

J ENVIRON PROT ECOL

Year of study

Number

State

Republic of Bulgaria

Pages from

861

Pages to

867

Pages count

BibTex

@article{BUT104962,
  author="Zuzana {Bílková} and Milada {Vávrová} and Josef {Čáslavský} and Jaroslav {Mega} and Zdeněk {Šimek}",
  title="Assessment of drinking water treatment technologies to remove estrogens",
  journal="J ENVIRON PROT ECOL",
  year="2015",
  volume="16",
  number="3",
  pages="861--867",
  issn="1311-5065"
}