Department of Water and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Johor, Malaysia.
Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Research Institute for Environmental Sustainability, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Block C07, Level 2, 81310, Johor, Malaysia.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jan;29(4):4787-4802. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-17365-x. Epub 2021 Nov 13.
Many advanced technologies have shown encouraging results in removing antibiotics from domestic wastewater. However, as activated sludge treatment is the most common sewage treatment system employed worldwide, improving its effect on antibiotic removal would be more desirable. Understanding the removal mechanisms, kinetics and factors that affect antibiotic removal in the activated sludge process is important as it would allow us to improve the treatment performance. Although these have been discussed in various literature covering different types of antibiotics and wastewater, a specific review on antibiotics and domestic wastewater is clearly missing. This review paper collates, discusses and analyses the removal of antibiotics from sewage in the activated sludge process along with the removal mechanisms and kinetics. The antibiotics are categorised into six classes: β-lactam, dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor, fluoroquinolone, macrolide, sulfonamides and tetracycline. Furthermore, the factors affecting the system performance with regard to antibiotic removal are examined.
许多先进技术在去除生活污水中的抗生素方面表现出了令人鼓舞的效果。然而，由于活性污泥处理是目前世界范围内应用最广泛的污水处理系统，因此提高其去除抗生素的效果将更为可取。了解活性污泥工艺中抗生素去除的去除机制、动力学和影响因素非常重要，因为这将有助于提高处理性能。虽然这些内容已经在各种涵盖不同类型抗生素和废水的文献中进行了讨论，但显然缺少关于抗生素和生活污水的具体综述。本文综述了活性污泥工艺中从污水中去除抗生素的情况，以及去除机制和动力学。抗生素被分为六类：β-内酰胺类、二氢叶酸还原酶抑制剂、氟喹诺酮类、大环内酯类、磺胺类和四环素类。此外，还研究了影响抗生素去除系统性能的因素。
