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Rethinking micropollutant removal assessment methods for wastewater treatment plants – how to get more robust data?

Comment évaluer précisément l'efficacité d'élimination des micropolluants par les procédés de traitement ?

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This paper covers the pitfalls, recommendations and a new methodology for assessing micropollutant removal efficiencies in wastewater treatment plants. The proposed calculation rules take into account the limit of quantification and the analytical and sampling uncertainty of measured concentrations. We identified six cases for which a removal efficiency value is reliable and four other cases where result is highly variable (uncertain) due to very low or unquantified concentrations in effluent or when the influent–effluent concentrations differential is below the measurement uncertainty. The influence of the proposed calculation rules on removal efficiency values was scrutinized using actual results from a research project. The paper arrives at detailed recommendations for limiting the impact of other sources of uncertainty during sampling (sampling strategy, cleaning and field blank), chemical analyses (suspended solids and sludge) and data processing according to the targeted objectives.

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hal-02606369 , version 1 (16-05-2020)

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J.M. Choubert, S. Martin Ruel, Cecile Miege, Marina Coquery. Rethinking micropollutant removal assessment methods for wastewater treatment plants – how to get more robust data?. Water Science and Technology, 2017, 75 (12), pp.2964-2972. ⟨10.2166/wst.2017.181⟩. ⟨hal-02606369⟩

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