TY - JOUR
T1 - Modelling micro-pollutant fate in wastewater collection and treatment systems
T2 - Status and challenges
AU - Plósz, B. G.
AU - Benedetti, L.
AU - Daigger, G.T.
AU - Langford, Katherine H.
AU - Larsen, H.F.
AU - Monteith, H.
AU - Ort, C.
AU - Seth, R.
AU - Steyer, J-P.
AU - Vanrolleghem, Peter A.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper provides a comprehensive summary on modelling of micro-pollutants' (MPs) fate and transport in wastewater. It indicates the motivations of MP modelling and summarises and illustrates the current status. Finally, some recommendations are provided to improve and diffuse the use of such models. In brief, we conclude that, in order to predict the contaminant removal in centralised treatment works, considering the dramatic improvement in monitoring and detecting MPs in wastewater, more mechanistic approaches should be used to complement conventional, heuristic and other fate models. This is crucial, as regional risk assessments and model-based evaluations of pollution discharge from urban areas can potentially be used by decision makers to evaluate effluent quality regulation, and assess upgrading requirements, in the future.
AB - This paper provides a comprehensive summary on modelling of micro-pollutants' (MPs) fate and transport in wastewater. It indicates the motivations of MP modelling and summarises and illustrates the current status. Finally, some recommendations are provided to improve and diffuse the use of such models. In brief, we conclude that, in order to predict the contaminant removal in centralised treatment works, considering the dramatic improvement in monitoring and detecting MPs in wastewater, more mechanistic approaches should be used to complement conventional, heuristic and other fate models. This is crucial, as regional risk assessments and model-based evaluations of pollution discharge from urban areas can potentially be used by decision makers to evaluate effluent quality regulation, and assess upgrading requirements, in the future.
KW - Biotransformation and cometabolism
KW - Parent chemical retransformation
KW - Risk assessment and regulations
KW - Sorption-desorption
KW - Trace chemicals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873813803&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2012.562
U2 - 10.2166/wst.2012.562
DO - 10.2166/wst.2012.562
M3 - Article
C2 - 23128615
AN - SCOPUS:84873813803
SN - 0273-1223
VL - 67
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Water Science and Technology
JF - Water Science and Technology
IS - 1
ER -