RADIATION AND PHOTOCATALYTIC REMOVING OF SOME PHARMACEUTICALS DISCHARGED WITH HOSPITAL WASTEWATERUV
Session
Agriculture, Food Science and Technology
Description
Wastewater discharged from the activity of the Regional Hospital of Vlora-Albania has been basically source and environmental quality survey for this study. Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) can cause pollution of the environment because of the presence in it of very low concentrations in the effluent waters from the hospital activity. These waters are collected with the public water sewage system causing extra pollution causing health problems for the population living nearby and for other domestic animals and cultivation plants. Firstly, it was needed characterization of the hospital wastewaters and identifying the most present pharmaceuticals in there. In the study case of regional hospital, it was considered their impact on the environment once they enter our wastewater wells collectors around the hospital which wrongly are mixed with public sewage in the pipelines under no authority control, can be dangerous during exposing. In order to know the situation of the contamination level from the hospital wastewaters discharged continuously into the drainage we have found different pharmaceuticals present persistently. Some samples were taken and examined by analyzing them at instrumentalized laboratories for nutrient and other trace elements. Then we measured the pH, conductivity, temperature and other indicators for the supplying water in hospital and in the wastewater effluents after its usage in there.
The integrated study was finalized in realization of partly reactor design and installing of a pilot plant photo catalytic reactor in the Vlora Hospital premises, deeply information from the experience of the similar design pilot plants. From the practical tests performed with the real pilot plant, some promising results were taken for the destroying rate of some pharmaceuticals in such discharged wastewater.
Keywords:
wastewater, hospital effluents, pollution loads, treatment plant, photo catalytic reaction
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-50-5
Location
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Start Date
29-10-2022 12:00 AM
End Date
30-10-2022 12:00 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2022.313
Recommended Citation
malollari, ilirjan; Lajqi, Violeta; Bazini, Evelina; and Llupa, Jonilda, "RADIATION AND PHOTOCATALYTIC REMOVING OF SOME PHARMACEUTICALS DISCHARGED WITH HOSPITAL WASTEWATERUV" (2022). UBT International Conference. 322.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2022/all-events/322
RADIATION AND PHOTOCATALYTIC REMOVING OF SOME PHARMACEUTICALS DISCHARGED WITH HOSPITAL WASTEWATERUV
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Wastewater discharged from the activity of the Regional Hospital of Vlora-Albania has been basically source and environmental quality survey for this study. Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) can cause pollution of the environment because of the presence in it of very low concentrations in the effluent waters from the hospital activity. These waters are collected with the public water sewage system causing extra pollution causing health problems for the population living nearby and for other domestic animals and cultivation plants. Firstly, it was needed characterization of the hospital wastewaters and identifying the most present pharmaceuticals in there. In the study case of regional hospital, it was considered their impact on the environment once they enter our wastewater wells collectors around the hospital which wrongly are mixed with public sewage in the pipelines under no authority control, can be dangerous during exposing. In order to know the situation of the contamination level from the hospital wastewaters discharged continuously into the drainage we have found different pharmaceuticals present persistently. Some samples were taken and examined by analyzing them at instrumentalized laboratories for nutrient and other trace elements. Then we measured the pH, conductivity, temperature and other indicators for the supplying water in hospital and in the wastewater effluents after its usage in there.
The integrated study was finalized in realization of partly reactor design and installing of a pilot plant photo catalytic reactor in the Vlora Hospital premises, deeply information from the experience of the similar design pilot plants. From the practical tests performed with the real pilot plant, some promising results were taken for the destroying rate of some pharmaceuticals in such discharged wastewater.