Chemical identification and genotoxicity analysis of petrochemical industrial wastewater

doi:10.1007/s11783-012-0404-0

Front Envir Sci Eng

2012, Vol. 6

Issue (3) : 350-359 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-012-0404-0

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Chemical identification and genotoxicity analysis of petrochemical industrial wastewater

Jing ZHANG¹, Shigong WANG¹, Can WANG², Hongying HU³(

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1. Department of Environmental Science, School of Recourses and Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; 2. Department of Environmental Engineering, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; 3. Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control State Key Joint Laboratory, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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Abstract

The actual harmful effects of industrial wastewater can not be reflected by the conventional water quality index. Therefore, the change in dissolved organic matter and the genetic toxicity of petrochemical wastewater were observed in the current study by examining the wastewater treatment plant of a large petrochemical enterprise in Northwest China. Using XAD-8, MSC, and DA-7 resins, the wastewater was separated into six fractions, namely, hydrophobic acid (HOA), hydrophobic neutral (HOB), hydrophobic alkaline, hydrophilic acid, hydrophilic alkaline, and hydrophilic neutral. Umu-test was used to detect the genetic toxicity of the wastewater samples, and fluorescence spectra were also obtained to examine genetic toxic substances. The results show that wastewater treatment facilities can effectively reduce the concentration of organic matter in petrochemical wastewater (p<0.05). However, the mixing of aniline wastewater can increase the amount of organic carbon (p<0.05) and can overload facilities. This finding shows that the mixed collection and joint treatment of different types of petrochemical wastewater can affect the water quality of the effluent. Particularly, hydrophobic substances can be difficult to remove and account for a relatively large proportion of the effluent. The mixture of aniline wastewater can increase the genetic toxicity of the effluent (p<0.05), and biologic treatment can not effectively decrease the toxicity. Most of the genetic toxicology may exist in the HOA and HOB fractions. Fluorescence spectroscopy also confirms this result, and tryptophan-like substances may play an important role in genetic toxicity.

Keywords dissolved organic matter resin fraction genetic toxicity fluorescence excitation and emission matrix

Corresponding Author(s): HU Hongying,Email:hyhu@tsinghua.edu.cn

Issue Date: 01 June 2012

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Jing ZHANG,Shigong WANG,Can WANG, et al. Chemical identification and genotoxicity analysis of petrochemical industrial wastewater[J]. Front Envir Sci Eng, 2012, 6(3): 350-359.

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Tab.1 Quality of the wastewater samples

Fig.1 DOC of the components of the water samples. These components were obtained by resin fractionation

Fig.2 Proportion of DOC of the different components of the wastewater samples

Tab.2 Removal efficiency of HOS and HIS at two different operation stations

Fig.3 Results of the umu-test used to analyze the genotoxicity of the wastewater samples

Fig.4 Results of the umu-test performed on the components of the treated effluents

Fig.5 Genotoxicity of each unit of DOC of different components

Fig.6 3D fluorescence spectra of the effluents: (a) S2 HOA; (b) S4 HOA; (c) S2 HOB; (d) S4 HOB; (e) S2 HON; (f) S4 HON

Tab.3 Position and intensity of the fluorescence peaks of the components of the treated effluents

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