Occurrences of six steroid estrogens from different effluents in Beijing, China |
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Authors: | Yiqi Zhou Jinmiao Zha Yiping Xu Bingli Lei Zijian Wang |
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Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 2871, Beijing, 100085, People’s Republic China; |
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Abstract: | Concentration levels of six natural and anthropogenic origin steroid estrogens, namely, diethylstilbestrol (DES), estrone
(E1), estradiol (E2), estriol (E3), ethinylestradiol (EE2), and estradiol-17-valerate (Ev), from different effluents in Beijing
were assessed. Sampling sites include two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), a chemical plant, a hospital, a pharmaceutical
factory, a hennery, and a fish pool. In general, concentrations of estrogens in the effluents varied from no detection (nd)
to 11.1 ng/l, 0.7 to 1.2 × 103 ng/l, nd to 67.4 ng/l, nd to 4.1 × 103 ng/l, nd to 1.2 × 103 ng/l, and nd to 11.2 ng/l for DES, E1, E2, EE2, E3, and Ev, respectively. The concentration levels of steroid estrogens from
different effluents decreased in the order of pharmaceutical factory and WWTP inlets > hospital > hennery > chemical factory
> fish pool. This study indicated that natural estrogens E1, E2, and E3 and synthetic estrogen EE2 are the dominant steroid
estrogens found in the different Beijing effluents. For source identification, an indicator (hE = E3/(E1 + E2 + E3)) was used
to trace human estrogen excretion. Accordingly, hE in effluents from the hospital and WWTP inlets exceeded 0.4, while much
smaller values were obtained for the other effluents. Human excretions were the major contributor of natural estrogens in
municipal wastewater. Estimation results demonstrated that direct discharge was the major contributor of steroid estrogen
pollution in receiving waters. |
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