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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2007, Article ID 53853, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2007/53853 Research Article Selective Photocatalytic Oxidation of Steroid Estrogens in the Presence of Copollutants in the Sanitary Fraction of Domestic Sewage Tatyana Karpova, Sergei Preis, and Juha Kallas Department of Chemical Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O. Box 20, 53851 Lappeenranta, Finland Received 21 February 2007; Revised 22 May 2007; Accepted 5 June 2007 Recommended by Leonardo Palmisano The photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) of the steroid estrogens (SEs), β -estradiol, and 17α-ethynylestradiol, competitive with some constituent compounds of the sanitary fraction of domestic sewage, was studied. The copollutants, urea, and saccharose, present in concentrations exceeding those of the SEs by a factor of a hundred to thousands, appeared to exert a weaker influence to the photocatalytic degradation of the SEs than was expected. The removal of the SEs from diluted urine proceeded, selectively, demon- strating the potential of PCO in the treatment of the separate sanitary fraction of domestic sewage. Copyright © 2007 Tatyana Karpova et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. INTRODUCTION Europe [3, 7, 8], depending on the type of STP process used, the density of population in the area, and various other fac- In recent years, the observation of hermaphrodite fish in tors. These data indicate that the inadequate removal of SEs sewage treat