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Insights into removal mechanisms of bisphenol A and its analogues in municipal wastewater treatment plants
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Researchers critically reviewed how bisphenol A (BPA) and related compounds are removed in municipal wastewater treatment plants, finding that sludge adsorption plays a key role but that newly produced BPA from degrading microplastics in wastewater complicates removal and may explain why real-world performance deviates from theoretical predictions.
The occurrence and removal mechanisms of bisphenol A (BPA) and its analogues in municipal WWTPs were critically reviewed in this article. BPA appeared to be the dominant bisphenol, and the removal efficiency of bisphenols was in the order of bisphenol AP>bisphenol P>bisphenol F>bisphenol Z>bisphenol C>bisphenol S>bisphenol B>BPA>bisphenol E>bisphenol AF. It was also found that BPA removal showed linear relationships to those of its analogues, which have been proven by BPA vs BPS or BPF. BPA removal performances in different treatment processes ranked from low to high are primary treatment, lagoon process, biological aerated filter, and activated sludge. Lab-scale studies showed that >50% BPA can be removed by sewage sludge estimated with the BPA solid water distribution coefficients, which showed that sludge adsorption played an important role on BPA removal. The theoretically predicted removal of BPA in municipal WWTP showed that it is readily biodegradable, which deviate from its on-site investigations. Existence of BPA conjugates in raw municipal wastewater as well as newly produced BPA degraded or migrated from microplastic materials are possible two main reasons.
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