Department Environmental Chemistry

Contaminants in wastewater treatment

Micropollutants from urban sources (e.g. pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial chemicals) enter the aquatic environment via municipal wastewater. We are investigating their mass fluxes from the usage, their behavior during wastewater treatment and their environmental fate in the water cycle. We are mainly interested in the wastewater treatment processes and in strategies, how to remove these organic micropollutants in conventional and advanced treatment with ozone and activated carbon.

Contact

Dr. Christa McArdell Senior scientist / group leader Tel. +41 58 765 5483 Send Mail

Team members

Eva Anthamatten Research collaborator Tel. +41 58 765 5997 Send Mail
Fionn Carl Master student Tel. +41 58 765 5125 Send Mail
Andreas Maccagnan Technician Tel. +41 58 765 5978 Send Mail
Dr. Tarek Manasfi Postdoctoral Scientist Tel. +41 58 765 6437 Send Mail

Current projects

Ozonation is one of the treatments used in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to remove MPs, reducing their discharge to the aquatic environment...

SWO3T: Bioanalytical Strategies for Evaluating Wastewater Ozonation Treatment
Formation and fate of transformation products in water treatment with ozone and biological post-treatment

TRANSFO3RM
Characterization of wastewater treatment with suspect und non-target screening for the evaluation of ozonation and activated carbon treatment

SCREEN-O3TP
Pilot scale advanced treatment of wastewater with granular activated carbon (GAC) and combined with ozonation (O3/GAC) at WWTP Glarnerland

Glarnerland project

Publications

Terminated projects

  • Ozonation and different biological post-treatments at WWTP Neugut (DEMEAU, ReTREAT)
  • Ozonation and GAK treatment at WWTP Bülach
  • Decentralized wastewater treatment at hospitals - hospital wastewater project
  • Fate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment - ResistFlow
  • Treatment of urine for the production of fertilizer -  VUNA project

  • Infiltration of treated wastewater into groundwater -

    RECLAIM Water