Rapid detection of multiple class pharmaceuticals in both municipal wastewater and sludge with ultra high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

This work described the development, optimization and validation of an analytical method for rapid detection of multiple-class pharmaceuticals in both municipal wastewater and sludge samples based on ultrasonic solvent extraction, solid-phase extraction, and ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry quantification. The results indicated that the developed method could effectively extract all the target pharmaceuticals （25） in a single process and analyze them within 24 min. The recoveries of the target pharmaceuticals were in the range of 69%-131% for wastewater and 54%-130% for sludge at different spiked concentration levels. The method quantification limits in wastewater and sludge ranged from 0.02 to 0.73 ng/L and from 0.02 to 1.00μg/kg, respectively. Subsequently, this method was validated and applied for residual pharma- ceutical analysis in a wastewater treatment plant located in Beijing, China. All the target pharmaceuticals were detected in the influent samples with concentrations varying from 0.09 ng/L （tiamulin） to 15.24 μg/L （caffeine）; meanwhile, up to 23 pharmaceuticals were detected in sludge samples with concentrations varying from 60 ng/kg （sulfamethizole） to 8.55 mg/kg （ofloxacin）. The developed method demonstrated its selectivity, sensitivity, and reliability for detecting multiple-class pharmaceuticals in complex matrices such as municipal wastewater and sludge.     

垃圾填埋场渗滤液中药物和个人护理品的存在与去除

采用固相萃取–高效液相色谱/串联质谱法,分析上海市某生活垃圾填埋场渗滤液中7种典型药物和个人护理品（PPCPs）的浓度水平,并考察该填埋场的渗滤液处理工艺对目标PPCPs的处理效果.结果表明,所建立的分析方法具备较好的回收率（89%~173%）、相对标准偏差（<20%）和方法检出限（0.025~1.0μg/L）,能满足实际环境样品的分析需要.应用该方法检测到渗滤液中目标PPCPs的含量在低于检出限（90%,总去除率可达到97%以上,出水PPCPs浓度范围为     

黄浦江流域典型药物和个人护理品的含量及分布特征

采用固相萃取-高效液相色谱/串联质谱法(SPE-HPLC-MS/MS)分析上海市黄浦江流域7种典型药物和个人护理品(PPCPs)的含量水平.结果表明,所建立的分析方法具备良好的回收率(87%~107%)、相对标准偏差(<14%)及方法定量限(0.1~1.1ng/L),满足水体中微量污染物的检测要求.应用该方法检测得到,上海市黄浦江流域水体中目标 PPCPs的含量在相似文献   

上海市市政污水中全氟有机酸污染特征

选择上海市9座市政污水处理厂(WWTPs)作为研究对象,检测其进水和出水中全氟有机酸(PFAs)污染水平.结果表明,市政污水中总PFAs浓度为903~4628ng/L,且中短链(C2~C10)全氟羧酸(PFCAs)的检出率一般高于长链(>C10)PFCAs,而对全氟烷基磺酸(PFSAs)而言,全氟辛磺酸(PFOS)的检出率远高于全氟丁磺酸(PFBS)和全氟己磺酸(PFHxS).三氟乙酸(TFA)一般是市政污水中污染水平最高的PFAs,浓度为359~4129ng/L,占总PFAs的20%~93%.尽管全氟辛酸(PFOA)和PFOS的浓度一般低于TFA,甚至在某些情况下还会低于其他PFAs,但在绝大多数情况下它们依然是2种主要的PFAs类污染物,浓度分别为40.6~1571ng/L和21.3~1027ng/L,分别占总PFAs的2%~57%和1%~30%.在污水处理过程中,短链(C2~C5)和长链(>C10)PFCAs浓度的显著下降,而中等链长(C6~C10)PFCAs和PFSAs浓度则显著增加.此外,PFAs浓度和工业废水比例之间并不存在明显的正相关关系.     

A SPE-HPLC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of prioritised pharmaceuticals and EDCs with high environmental risk potential in freshwater

This work describes the development, optimisation and validation of an analytical method for the rapid determination of 17 priority pharmaceutical compounds and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Rather than studying compounds from the same therapeutic class, the analyses aimed to determine target compounds with the highest risk potential (with particular regard to Scotland), providing a tool for further monitoring in different water matrices. Prioritisation was based on a systematic environmental risk assessment approach, using consumption data; wastewater treatment removal efficiency; environmental occurrence; toxicological effects; and pre-existing regulatory indicators. This process highlighted 17 compounds across various therapeutic classes, which were then quantified, at environmentally relevant concentrations, by a single analytical methodology. Analytical determination was achieved using a single-step solid phase extraction (SPE) procedure followed by high-performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). The fully optimised method performed well for the majority of target compounds, with recoveries >71% for 15 of 17 analytes. The limits of quantification for most target analytes (14 of 17) ranged from 0.07 ng/L to 1.88 ng/L in river waters. The utility of this method was then demonstrated using real water samples associated with a rural hospital/setting. Eight compounds were targeted and detected, with the highest levels found for the analgesic, paracetamol (at up to 105,910 ng/L in the hospital discharge). This method offers a robust tool to monitor high priority pharmaceutical and EDC levels in various aqueous sample matrices.     

PSE-UPLC-MS/MS法测定污泥中9种药物与个人护理品

利用加压溶剂萃取法(PSE)提取、固相萃取法净化并结合超高效液相色谱-串联四极杆质谱仪(UPLC-MS/MS)检测,建立了污水处理厂污泥中7个药剂类别的9种药物与个人护理品(舒必利、咖啡因、美托洛尔、氯霉素、萘啶酸、卡马西平、驱蚊胺、氯贝酸、苯扎贝特)的分析检测方法.在萃取方法中,对加压溶剂萃取的污泥质量和溶剂进行了优化;在净化方法中,对固相萃取柱种类、固相萃取柱容量、洗脱溶剂和洗脱量进行了优选.结果表明,方法检出限(以干质量计,下同)在2.7～65.0 pg/g范围内,加标回收率在67.0%～130%之间,相对标准偏差均小于25%(即标准偏差小于25 μg/L).应用所建立的分析方法,对北京某污水处理厂的脱水污泥进行了测定,9种目标物质含量为nd(未检出)～50.5 ng/g,其中,舒必利、咖啡因、卡马西平、驱蚊胺和氯贝酸在2010年春、夏季2次采样均有检出.      

Simultaneous determination of brominated phenols in soils

Brominated phenols （BPs）, a widely used group of emerging flame retardants, are important environmental contaminants and exhibit endocrine disrupting potential. Method for simultaneous determination of tetrabromobisphenol A （TBBPA）, tribromophenol （TBP）, dibromophenols （DBPs） and monobromophenols （MBPs） in soils using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis （GC/MS） was successfully developed. Cleanup methods for soil extracts including several solid-phase extraction cartridges and different elution solvents were compared and optimized. Florisil cartridge with dichloromethane as the elution reagent was selected for sample cleanup owing to its high and reproducible recoveries of the target analytes in soils. Derivatization conditions were tested and the optimal conditions were obtained with 20 μL silylation reagent at room temperature. The chromatographic separation was optimized with different columns and DB-XLB column was selected for its excellent separation of the analytes. The limits of detection for the target compounds were from 0.04 to 0.19 ng/g. Mean recoveries of the compounds from spiked soils exceeded 84% with a good reproducibility, excepting that the recovery of 2-bromophenol was relatively poor （lower than 55%） due to its instability. The developed method was applied to the determination of the BPs in the soils collected from e-waste sites. The contents of BPs in the soils were at ng/g levels with TBBPA and TBP the most frequently detected. To our knowledge, this is the first report for the simultaneous determination of TBBPA, TBP, DBPs and MBPs in soils.     

城市污水处理厂水样中有机氯农药残留分析

建立了基于HLB固相萃取柱和气相色谱/电子捕获(GC/ECD)分析城市污水中有机氯农药的分析方法,对北京市五大城市污水处理厂———高碑店、北小河、酒仙桥、清河、方庄污水处理厂进出水水样中有机氯农药进行了分析。在5个污水处理厂的水样中共检出了6种有机氯类农药,分别是α-六六六、β-六六六、γ-六六六、δ-六六六、艾氏剂、4,4’-滴滴伊和异狄氏剂,浓度在0.2~76.4ng/L之间。方法对有机氯农药的回收率达到60.93%~141.50%,方法检测限为(0.27~2.90)ng/L。     

某市再生水灌区水土环境中PPCPs污染特征分析

为初步了解再生水灌区土壤环境中药物与个人护理品（PPCPs）的污染特征,识别灌区地下水中PPCPs的主要来源,对某市东南郊Y灌区内的淸灌区、再生水灌区以及湿地三种类型的场地进行了精细剖面钻探工作,采集不同深度土壤、灌区地表水及成井地下水样品,分别对其进行了常规指标和15种PPCPs浓度的测试.结果表明,不同场地土壤中PPCPs含量分布存在差异,土壤剖面中PPCPs含量总体表现为再生水灌区 > 清灌区 > 湿地.土壤中PPCPs总浓度平均值为15.6μg/kg,主要以卡马西平CBZ、苯扎贝特BF、吉非罗齐GF、氯霉素CP、吲哚美辛IM为主.灌区地表水中PPCPs总含量明显高于地下水,总浓度平均值分别为272.5ng/L和63.5ng/L,且地表水中,PPCPs含量呈现沿程递减现象.利用Multi-cell基本原理并结合推流的概念刻画PPCPs从地表穿透土壤包气带进入地下水的垂向输移过程,计算结果显示除卡马西平CBZ、甲芬那酸MA和萘啶酸NA外,其余9种PPCPs计算值和地下水中的实测值吻合良好,初步证实再生水是灌区地下水中PPCPs的主要来源.     

典型规模化养猪场废水中兽用抗生素污染特征与去除效率研究

采用固相萃取结合高效液相色谱/串联质谱方法,对苕溪流域某规模化养猪场排放的典型废水进行兽用抗生素污染检测.结果表明,废水中四环素、土霉素、金霉素和强力霉素等4种四环素类抗生素污染最为严重,最高单体污染浓度可达13.65×103ng·L-1.磺胺嘧啶、磺胺甲唑和磺胺二甲嘧啶等3种磺胺类物质也有一定的检出量,但以磺胺二甲嘧啶较为突出,最高检出量为675.4ng·L-1.氧氟沙星以及红霉素和罗红霉素等喹诺酮和大环内酯类抗生素除了原水有较低的检出量,其它废水均未检出.厌氧消化废水处理系统对废水中高浓度的抗生素具有明显的去除效果,但对低浓度的抗生素去除率较低.与欧盟水环境抗生素阈值(10ng·L-1)相比,排放水中的抗生素污染浓度对周边地表水环境的污染风险仍需要引起重视.通过饲料摄入途径估算养猪场排泄物抗生素含量,并与实测值比较,结果表明,饲料摄入并不是该养猪场兽用抗生素利用的主要方式,可能存在其它用药途径,需要在今后的畜禽养殖兽用抗生素的污染调查、风险估算和消减工艺研发中引起重视.     

吹扫捕集-GC/MS法检测饮用水中十三种常见挥发性有机物

建立了吹扫捕集-GC/MS法检测饮用水中十三种常见挥发性有机物的方法。最低检出限在0.041~1.08μg/L之间,加标回收率在80%~120%,具有较高的灵敏度和较广的分析范围。该分析方法准确、快速,能实现一针进样同时检测13种物质,缩短了分析周期,并应用该方法对城市水样进行了实测分析。     

水环境中雌激素的酶联免疫快速生物筛选技术研究

采用酶联免疫(ELISA)检测技术,对来自长江口及污水处理厂的水样分析典型雌激素雌二醇(E2)的浓度,将检测结果与化学方法检测数据进行比较验证,以阐明ELISA应用于水环境雌激素快速筛选的可行性。结果表明:ELISA的检测限可低至0.5 ng/L,试验的变异系数<30%,具有较高的灵敏性和良好的重复性;ELISA检测长江口水样中E2浓度范围≤0.7 ng/L,污水处理厂水样为2.5～11.5 ng/L,与液相色谱串联质谱(LC-MS/MS)的检测数据进行比较分析,其相关系数R~2为0.9147,表明2种方法具有良好的相关性;ELISA检测所需的水样量比LC-MS/MS更少,使用96微孔板可同时对43个样品进行检测,缩短了多个样品的分析时间,具有快速简便、经济适用的特点。因此,ELISA作为1种快速、简便、灵敏的雌激素高通量筛选技术,可为环境保护部门开展水环境雌激素物质调查和水体雌激素快速诊断等工作提供技术支持。     

小海湾水体有机氯农药的浓度水平和特征

以海南省万宁市小海湾为研究区,按照美国EPA8080A方法,使用仪器GC-ECD对小海湾海水和汇入其中地表水中样品的OCPs含量进行分析,样品中18种有机氯农药均出,以HCHs和DDTs为主,它们的和占到OCPs含量的60%。外海HCH含量0.26ng/L,DDTs含量0.53ng/L,OCPs含量1.34ng/L。海水中HCHs含量范围:2.39～4.59ng/L,平均值是3.31ng/L;DDTs含量范围:0.27～6.34ng/L,平均值是3.42ng/L;OCPs含量范3.63～17.01ng/L,平均值是11.15ng/L。地表水中HCHs含量范围:0.95～3.46ng/L,总含量是9.70ng/L;DDTs含量:0.96～2.86ng/L,总含量是9.70ng/L;OCPs含量范围3.71～17.16ng/L,总含量是59.13ng/L后山村河以及桥头村河的OCPs含量高出其它河流很多,周围是农田、居民点。由数据及小海湾的地理状况,得出海水中OCPs来源于地表径流,小海湾是OCPs巨大的储存库,OCPs主要汇集在沉积物中。     

Using lysosomal membrane stability of haemocytes in Ruditapes philippinarum as a biomarker of cellular stress to assess contamination by caffeine, ibuprofen, carbamazepine and novobiocin

Although pharmaceuticals have been detected in the environment only in the range from ng/L to g/L, it has been demonstrated that they can adversely affect the health status of aquatic organisms. Lysosomal membrane stability (LMS) has previously been applied as an indicator of cellular well-being to determine health status in bivalve mussels. The objective of this study is to evaluate LMS in Ruditapes philippinarum haemolymph using the neutral red retention assay (NRRA). Clams were exposed in laboratory conditions to caffeine (0.1, 5, 15, 50 μg/L), ibuprofen (0.1, 5, 10, 50 μg/L), carbamazepine and novobiocin (both at 0.1, 1, 10, 50 μg/L) for 35 days. Results show a dose-dependent effect of the pharmaceuticals. The neutral red retention time measured at the end of the bioassay was significantly reduced by 50% after exposure to environmental concentrations (p < 0.05) (caffeine = 15 μg/L; ibuprofen = 10 μg/L; carbamazepine = 1 μg/L and novobiocin = 1 μg/L), compared to controls. Clams exposed to these pharmaceuticals were considered to present a diminished health status (retention time < 45 min), significantly worse than controls (96 min) (p < 0.05). The predicted no environmental effect concentration (PNEC) results showed that these pharmaceuticals are very toxic at the environmental concentrations tested. Measurement of the alteration of LMS has been found to be a sensitive technique that enables evaluation of the health status of clams after exposure to pharmaceuticals under laboratory conditions, thus representing a robust Tier-1 screening biomarker.     

Determination of haloacetic acids concentrations in hospital effluent after chlorination by ion chromatography

The ion chromatography combined solid phase extraction (SPE) method was developed for the analysis of low concentration haloacetic acids(HAAs),a calss of disinfection by-products formed as a result of chlorination of hospital wastewater. The monitored HAAs included monochloroacetic acid, monobromoacetic acid, dichloroacetic acid, dibromoacetic acid and trichloroacetic acid. The method employed a sodium hydroxide eluent at a flow rate of 0.8 ml/min, electrolytically generated gradients, and suppressed conductivity detection. To analyze the HAAs in real hospital wastewater samples, C18 pretreatment cartridge was utilized to reduce samples' turbidity. Preconcentration with SPE and matrix elimination with treatment cartridges were investigated and were found to be able to obtain acceptable detection limits. Linearity, repeatability and detection limits of the above method were evaluated. The detection limits of monobromoacetic acid and dibromoacetic acid were 2.61 μg/L and 1.30 μg/L respectively, and the other three are ranging from 0.48 to 0.82 μg/L under 25-fold preconcentration. When the above optimization procedure was applied to three hospital wastewater samples with different treatment processes in Tianjin, it was found that the dichloroacetic acid is the major compound, and the growth ratios of the HAAs after disinfection by sodium hypochlorite were 91.28%, 63.61% and 79.50%, respectively.     

Determination of haloacetic acids in hospital e uent after chlorination by ion chromatography

The ion chromatography combined solid phase extraction （SPE） method was developed for the analysis of low concentration haloacetic acids （HAAs）, a class of disinfection by-products formed from chlorination of hospital wastewater. The monitored HAAs included monochloroacetic acid, monobromoacetic acid, dichloroacetic acid, dibromoacetic acid and trichloroacetic acid. The method employed a sodium hydroxide eluent at a flow rate of 0.8 ml/min, electrolytically generated gradients, and suppressed conductivity detection. To analyze the HAAs in real hospital wastewater samples, C18 pretreatment cartridge was utilized to reduce samples＇ turbidity. Preconcentration with SPE and matrix elimination with treatment cartridges were investigated and found to be able to obtain acceptable detection limits. Linearity, repeatability and detection limits of the above method were evaluated. The detection limits of monobromoacetic acid and dibromoacetic acid were 2.61 μg/L and 1.30 μg/L, respectively, and the other three acids are ranging from 0.48 to 0.82μg/L under 25-fold preconcentration. When the above optimization procedure was applied to three hospital wastewater samples with different treatment processes in Tianjin, it was found that the dichloroacetic acid was the major compound, and the growth ratios of the HAAs after disinfection by sodium hypochlorite were 91.28%, 63.61% and 79.50%, respectively.     

典型医药活性物质在污水处理厂中的归趋及其风险评估

采用固相萃取、高效液相色谱/串联质谱法 (污泥样品先采用超声波萃取预处理方法提取) 检测分析了包括磺胺类、喹诺酮类、大环类酯类抗生素、心血管类、止痛剂类等8类医药活性物质在重庆某污水厂中的含量水平及其行为归趋.采用 EC/PNEC 综合评价体系评估环境中目标医药活性物质的生态风险,利用质量平衡分析的方法分析了其在水相及污泥相中的分布.结果表明,目标物质在水相中均可检出,其检出浓度在ng/L~μg/L,在污泥样品中可检测出18种目标物质,其浓度在ng/g (干重,下同).仅仅1.1%的目标物质被污泥吸附去除.污水处理厂初级处理及氯化消毒阶段对目标物质无明显去除效果,目标物质的去除主要发生在生物处理阶段,生物的降解或转化作用是目标物质的主要去除机制.EC/PNEC分析表明,磺胺嘧啶、磺胺甲恶唑、氧氟沙星与脱水红霉素在污水处理厂出水及其污泥中综合评价因子均大于1,它们的存在可能对环境产生不同程度的危害.本研究结果表明,污水处理厂并不能完全去除水相中微量的医药物质,为防止排放导致的潜在生态风险,出水及污泥中活性医药物质需采取措施进行进一步的处理.     

Determination of 4-tert-octylphenol in surface water samples of Jinan in China by solid phase extraction coupled with GC-MS

Octylphenols, considered as xenoestrogens, mainly exist as 4-tert-octylphenol (OP) in aquatic environments. The high stability and accumulation of OP in aquatic systems have caused endocrine disruption. The OP in surface water in Jinan, China was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) coupled with solid phase extraction (SPE). Water samples were extracted by SPE on a cartridge system containing C-18 as sorbent. To increase sensitivity and selectivity, OP was derivatized to 4-tert-octyl-phenoxy silane. With the use of phenanthrene-d10 as internal standard, the detection limit based on signal-to-noise ratio (S/N = 3) was 0.06 ng/mL. The average recovery was from 84.67% to 109.7%. The precision of the method given as the relative standard deviations (RSD) was within the range 6.24%-12.96%. In the target water samples, the concentrations of OP were as follows: 15.88-71.24 ng/L for Jinxiuchuan Reservoir, 3.850-26.68 ng/L for the city moat, 6.930-41.56 ng/L for Daming Lake, 66.03-474.2 ng/L for Xiaoqing River, 14.66-17.72 ng/L for the Yellow River, and 10.60-26.43 ng/L for Queshan Reservoir. The Xiaoqing River was seriously polluted due to the discharge of wastewater from Jinan. Jinxiuchuan Reservoir had a higher concentration of OP compared with the Yellow River and Queshan Reservoir, which is ascribed to the surrounding human activities. These data are reported for the first time, providing strong support for the control of OP pollution in Jinan.     

新兴污染物水环境保护标准及其实用型去除技术

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