Sorption of biodegradation end products of nonylphenol polyethoxylates onto activated sludge |
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Authors: | Hung Nguyen Viet Tateda Masafumi Ike Michihiko Fujita Masanori Tsunoi Shinji Tanaka Minoru |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan 2. Department of Environmental Systems Technology, College of Technology, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Kosugi, Imizu, Toyama,939-0398, Japan 3. Research Center for Environmental Preservation, Osaka University, 2-4 Yamada-oka, Suita,Osaka 565-0871, Japan |
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Abstract: | Nonylphenol(NP), nonylphenoxy acetic acid (NP1EC), nonylphenol monoethoxy acetic acid (NP2EC), nonylphenol monoethoxylate (NP1EO) and nonylphenol diethoxylate (NP2EO) are biodegradation end products (BEPs) of nonionic surfactant nonylphenolpolyethoxylates (NPnEO). In this research, sorption of these compounds onto model activated sludge was characterized. Sorption equilibrium experiments showed that NP, NP1EO and NP2EO reached equilibrium in about 12 h, while equilibrium of NP1EC and NP2EC were reached earlier, in about 4 h. In sorption isotherm experiments, obtained equilibrium data at 28 degrees C fitted well to Freundlich sorption model for all investigated compounds. For NP1EC, in addition to Freundlich, equilibrium data also fitted well to Langmuir model. Linear sorption model was also tried, and equilibrium data of all NP, NP1EO, NP2EO and NP2EC except NP1EC fitted well to this model. Calculated Freundlich coefficient (K(F)) and linear sorption coefficient (K(D)) showed that sorption capacity of the investigated compounds were in order NP > NP2EO > NP1EO > NP1EC approximately NP2EC. For NP, NP1EO and NP2EO, high values of calculated K(F) and K(D) indicated an easy uptake of these compounds from aqueous phase onto activated sludge. Whereas, NP1EC and NP2EC with low values of K(F) and K(D) absorbed weakly to activated sludge and tended to preferably remain in aqueous phase. |
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Keywords: | activated sludge biodegradation end products endocrine disruptor nonylphenol polyethoxylates sorption |
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