The use of chiral pharmaceutical compounds to characterise sewage treatment processes and sewage contamination of surface waters

使用手性药物化合物表征污水处理过程和地表水污水污染

• 批准号: DP0772864
• 负责人: Prof Stuart Khan
• 金额: $ 7.95万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0772864
• 关键词: use; chiral; pharmaceutical; compounds; characterise

Contamination by poorly treated and untreated sewage can severely degrade the quality of Australian surface waters. However, the behaviour of organic chemicals during conventional sewage treatment processes remains poorly understood. Furthermore, raw sewage pollution is generally not distinguishable from properly discharged treated sewage effluent by current analytical methods. The proposed research will provide a chemical marker for characterising treatment processes and identifying untreated sewage pollution. This will help to identify sources of such pollution so that they may be corrected. A principal outcome of the research will be the improved ability to protect Australia's valuable surface waters from sewage pollution.

处理不当和未经处理的污水造成的污染会严重降低澳大利亚地表沃茨的质量。然而，对有机化学品在传统污水处理过程中的行为仍然知之甚少。此外，通过目前的分析方法，通常无法将未经处理的污水污染与适当排放的经处理的污水区分开来。拟议的研究将提供一个化学标记，用于描述处理过程和识别未经处理的污水污染。这将有助于查明这种污染的来源，以便加以纠正。这项研究的主要成果将是提高保护澳大利亚宝贵的地表沃茨免受污水污染的能力。