Author(s):
Paíga, Paula ; Correia, Manuela ; Fernandes, Maria João ; Silva, Ana Margarida ; Martins de Carvalho, Maria Manuela ; Vieira, Joana ; Jorge, Sandra ; Silva, Jaime Gabriel ; Freire, Cristina ; Delerue-Matos, Cristina
Date: 2019
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/16393
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Subject(s): Chromatography; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Portugal; Tandem Mass Spectrometry; Time Factors; Waste Disposal; Water Pollutants; Environmental Monitoring; Wastewaters; Hourly sample collection; Mass spectrometry; Pharmaceuticals; Solid phase extraction; UHPLC-MS/MS
Description
The removal efficiency of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is variable and some of these compounds pass these plants almost intact and others presenting a removal efficiency close to 100%. Their incomplete removal results in a continuous discharge of pharmaceuticals into the environment. To assess the profile of contamination of influents and effluents over a day, a set of 83 pharmaceuticals were evaluated hourly in a WWTP in Leiria, Portugal. The composite samples of the influent and effluent were also collected. Concentrations varied from 1 in WWTP influents, and carbamazepine, fluoxetine, sertraline the pharmaceuticals with an RQ > 1 in WWTP effluents.
