Characterization of non-volatile organic contaminants in coking wastewater using non-target screening: Dominance of nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen-containing compounds in biological effluents

While abundant volatile compounds (VOCs) have been identified in coking wastewater, the structures and occurrence of non-volatile organic compounds (non-VOCs) have remained unknown. In this study, 3966 non-VOCs belonging to 24 groups were tentatively identified for the first time in wastewater from...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Science of the total environment 2022-09, Vol.837, p.155768-155768, Article 155768
Hauptverfasser: Zang, Lijie, Wan, Yi, Zhang, Haifeng, Zhang, Yu, Gao, Yingxin, He, Yupeng, Hu, Jianying, Kang, Yuehui, Cao, Dong, Yang, Min
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Zusammenfassung:While abundant volatile compounds (VOCs) have been identified in coking wastewater, the structures and occurrence of non-volatile organic compounds (non-VOCs) have remained unknown. In this study, 3966 non-VOCs belonging to 24 groups were tentatively identified for the first time in wastewater from four biological coking wastewater treatment systems in northern China using a non-target screening technique. A total of 227 compounds with CHNO, CHO, CHOS, and CHNOS elemental compositions were assigned with level 2 identification confidence, and 19 of them were confirmed with authentic standards, with 9-methyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde (1706.3–2032.7 μg/L) and 3-Indolyl acetic acid monomethyl terephthalate (773.7–1449.9 μg/L) as the top two compounds in the influents, and 9-methyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde (31.8–130.1 μg/L) and monomethyl terephthalate (13.9–196.6 μg/L) as the top two in the effluents. The four groups of substances accounted for 93.4% and 71.5% of the total responses of tentatively identified compounds in the influents and biological effluents, respectively, and were estimated to contribute 32.3–48.9% of the chemical oxygen demand in the biological effluents. In comparison with those in the influent, abundant S-containing compounds (CHOS and CHNOS, 35.2% of the total responses) were observed in the biological effluents, suggesting their highly bio-refractory characteristics. The advanced treatment process using synchronized oxidation-adsorption could almost completely remove the CHOS and CHNOS compounds from the biological effluents. [Display omitted] •Non-volatile organic compounds in coking wastewater were non-target screened.•Totally 3966 non-VOCs belonging to 24 groups were identified.•The CHNO, CHO, CHOS and CHNOS compounds were predominant in biological effluents.•Synchronized oxidation-adsorption selectively removed CHOS and CHNOS.
ISSN:0048-9697
1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155768