Evaluation of perfluorinated compounds in seven wastewater treatment plants in Beijing urban areas英文文献.pdfVIP

SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry • ARTICLES • March 2011 Vol.54 No.3: 552–558 doi: 10.1007/s11426-010-4093-x Evaluation of perfluorinated compounds in seven wastewater treatment plants in Beijing urban areas * PAN YuanYuan, SHI YaLi, WANG JieMing CAI YaQi State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology; Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China Received May 12, 2010; accepted June 17, 2010; published online September 17, 2010 The presence of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in seven major wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Beijing was inves- tigated in the current study. We detected nine PFCs in all the wastewater and sludge samples. Perfluorooctane acid (PFOA) is the dominant PFCs in influents and effluents, while perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) is the major contaminant in sludge. The highest PFC concentration was found in plants at Qinghe and Jiuxianqiao WWTP, while the lowest was found at Fangzhuang WWTP. The total values of PFC range from 2.88 to 176 ng/L in influents, from 5.48 to 498 ng/L in effluents, and from 1.21 to 32.0 ng/g (dry wt) in sludge. The fact that effluents usually contain higher levels of PFCs than influents suggests that addi- tional PFCs are produced during the wa