Corrigendum to “Opinion paper about organic trace pollutants in wastewater: Toxicity assessment in a European perspective” [Sci. Total Environ. 651 (2019) 3202–3221]

In recent years, worldwide awareness of an aquatic environment polluted by organic trace pollutants, e.g. pharmaceutical residues and industrial chemicals, has risen tremendously. The present paper outlines similarities and differences in how to face the organic trace pollutants occurring in the natural and urban water cycles in Germany and China. Our joint review clearly shows that this emerging environmental problem is in both countries being widely discussed on a scientific level and it is evidently perceived in a comparable way. However, while the state of knowledge, which is still unsatisfactory, induces further investigations in China, the research activities in Germany have already led to first full-scale applications to remove trace pollutants. While Germany seems to be one step ahead, China possibly is in a better position for a later trace pollutants removal due to the massively increasing use of membrane bioreactors as a key technology for the necessary expansion of wastewater treatment capacities.

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A new method to study biodegradation kinetics of organic trace pollutants by activated sludge

Chemosphere ◽

10.1016/s0045-6535(03)00291-1 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 52 (1) ◽

pp. 221-229 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Hardy Temmink ◽

Bram Klapwijk

Keyword(s):

Activated Sludge ◽

New Method ◽

Biodegradation Kinetics ◽

Kinetics Of ◽

Organic Trace ◽

Trace Pollutants

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Biochemical markers in feral roach (Rutilus rutilus) in relation to the bioaccumulation of organic trace pollutants

Chemosphere ◽

10.1016/0045-6535(94)90048-5 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 801-817 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Ron van der Oost ◽

Laura van Gastel ◽

Dennis Worst ◽

Marcel Hanraads ◽

Karel Satumalay ◽

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Keyword(s):

Biochemical Markers ◽

Rutilus Rutilus ◽

Roach Rutilus Rutilus ◽

Organic Trace ◽

Trace Pollutants

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Transport of pollutants in natural streams

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering ◽

10.1139/l83-002 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 9-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

J. A. McCorquodale ◽

E. H. Imam ◽

J. K. Bewtra ◽

Y. S. Hamdy ◽

J. K. Kinkead

Keyword(s):

Organic Pollutant ◽

Large River ◽

Multiple Sources ◽

Rapid Convergence ◽

Jet Mixing ◽

Natural Streams ◽

Stream Width ◽

Organic Trace ◽

Trace Pollutants ◽

Pollutants Dispersion

A modified two-dimensional mathematical model has been developed to simulate the dispersion of soluble degradable and nondegradable pollutants discharged from multiple industrial outfalls along a large river. This model takes into account the effects of depth and velocity variations in both longitudinal and lateral directions, the removal rates of degradable organic trace pollutants, the lateral convection of mass, and the effect of jet mixing and dilution at the outfalls. It can also accommodate the rapid convergence or divergence in stream width and the influence of an island and of flow diversion on pollutant dispersion.The model was validated by using phenol as a pollutant and comparing the computed values with the field data collected by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. The application of this model to the simulation of organic pollutant levels in the St. Clair River due to discharges from multiple sources is demonstrated in this paper. Keywords: degradable pollutants, dispersion; jet mixing, pollutant transport, multiple outfalls, nondegradable pollutants, St. Clair River.

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