ArticlePloS one2018
Fate of artificial sweeteners through wastewater treatment plants and water treatment processes.
Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The Threat of Food Additive Occurrence in the Environment-A Case Study on the Example of Swimming Pools.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Highly efficient UV/H2O2 technology for the removal of nifedipine antibiotics: Kinetics, co-existing anions and degradation pathways.PloS one · 2021Article
- Efficient Degradation of Acesulfame by Ozone/Peroxymonosulfate Advanced Oxidation Process.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Review on the determination and distribution patterns of a widespread contaminant artificial sweetener in the environment.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Review
- Correction: Fate of artificial sweeteners through wastewater treatment plants and water treatment processes.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Five full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in China using typical biodegradation processes (SBR, oxidation ditch, A2/O) were selected to assess the removal of four popular artificial sweeteners (ASs). All four ASs (acesulfame (ACE), sucralose (SUC), cyclamate (CYC) and saccharin (SAC)) were detected, ranging from 0.43 to 27.34μg/L in the influent. Higher concentrations of ASs were measured in winter. ACE could be partly removed by 7.11-50.76% through biodegradation and especially through the denitrifying process. The A2/O process was the most efficient at biodegrading ASs. Adsorption (by granular activated carbon (GAC) and magnetic resin) and ultraviolet radiation-based advanced oxidation processes (UV/AOPs) were evaluated to remove ASs in laboratory-scale tests. The amounts of resin adsorbed were 3.33-18.51 times more than those of GAC except for SUC. The adsorption ability of resin decreased in the order of SAC > ACE > CYC > SUC in accordance with the pKa. Degradation of ASs followed pseudo-first-order kinetics in UV/H2O2 and UV/PDS. When applied to the secondary effluent, ASs could be degraded from 30.87 to 99.93% using UV/PDS in 30 minutes and UV/PDS was more efficient and economic.
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