Holistic risk assessment of surface water contamination due to Pb-210 in oil produced water from the Bakken Shale

Chemosphere ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 627-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Torres ◽  
Om Prakash Yadav ◽  
Eakalak Khan
2016 ◽  
Vol 88 (7) ◽  
pp. 589-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Sadat Alavipoor ◽  
Zahra Ghorbaninia ◽  
Saeed Karimi ◽  
Hamidreza Jafari

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Neumann ◽  
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Kirsten N. Nicholson ◽  
Carolyn B. Dowling ◽  
Leah Wood ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 00054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bozena Mrowiec

The aim of this paper was to review the literature data regarding the physico-chemical characteristic of plastic pollutants discharged with municipal sewage, the practical possibility of removing microplastic particles from wastewater during different treatment steps in WWTPs and the problem of surface water contamination within them. Microplastics (the size range of 1 nm to < 5 mm), have been recognized as an emerging threat, as well as an ecotoxicological and ecological risk for water ecosystems. Municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are mentioned as the main point sources of microplastics in an aquatic environment. Microplastic particles can be effectively removed in the primary treatment zones via solids skimming and sludge settling processes. Different tertiary treatment processes such as: gravity sand filtration, discfilter, air flotation and membrane filtration provide substantial additional removal of microplastics, and the efficiency of wastewater treatment process can be at a removal level of 99.9%. Nevertheless, given the large volumes of effluent constantly discharged to receivers, even tertiary level WWTPs may constitute a considerable source of microplastics in the surface water.


2017 ◽  
Vol 220 ◽  
pp. 588-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael Santos ◽  
Aude Joyeux ◽  
Aurélien Besnard ◽  
Christophe Blanchard ◽  
Cédric Halkett ◽  
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