WASTE WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES AND RECENT ANALYTICAL DEVELOPMENTS Edited by Fernando Sebastian García Einschlag and Luciano Carlos WASTE WATER - TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES AND RECENT ANALYTICAL DEVELOPMENTS Edited by Fernando Sebastian García Einschlag and Luciano Carlos Waste Water - Treatment Technologies and Recent Analytical Developments http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/3443 Edited by Fernando Sebastian García Einschlag and Luciano Carlos Contributors Asli Baysal, Helena Zlámalová Gargošová, Milada Vávrová, Josef Čáslavský, Wu, Suresh Kumar Kailasa, Feng Wang, Huang, Zoran Stevanovic, Radmila Markovic, Jelenka Savkovic-Stevanovic, Sunday Paul Bako, Ebru Yesim Ozkan, Baha Buyukisik, Ugur Sunlu, Eduardo Robson Duarte, Fernado Colen, Fernando Sebastián García Einschlag, Luciano Carlos, Mónica González, Daniel Martire Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2013 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. 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Publishing Process Manager Iva Lipovic Technical Editor InTech DTP team Cover InTech Design team First published January, 2013 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from [email protected] Waste Water - Treatment Technologies and Recent Analytical Developments, Edited by Fernando Sebastian García Einschlag and Luciano Carlos p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0882-5 Contents Preface VII Section 1 Management and Remediation Technologies 1 Chapter 1 Waste Water Management Systems 3 Jelenka Savković-Stevanović Chapter 2 Mine Waste Water Management in the Bor Municipality in Order to Protect the Bor River Water 41 Zoran Stevanović , Ljubiša Obradović, Radmila Marković, Radojka Jonović , Ljiljana Avramović, Mile Bugarin and Jasmina Stevanović Chapter 3 Applications of Magnetite Nanoparticles for Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater 63 Luciano Carlos, Fernando S. García Einschlag, Mónica C. González and Daniel O. Mártire Chapter 4 The Effect of Solar Radiation in the Treatment of Swine Biofertilizer from Anaerobic Reactor 79 Josélia Fernandes Oliveira Tolentino, Fernando Colen, Eduardo Robson Duarte, Anna Christina de Almeida, Keila Gomes Ferreira Colen, Rogério Marcos de Souza and Janderson Tolentino Silveira Section 2 Analysis and Evaluation of Environmental Impact 97 Chapter 5 Recent Developments on Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Pesticides in Wastewater 99 Suresh Kumar Kailasa, Hui-Fen Wu* and Shang-Da Huang* Chapter 6 Selected Pharmaceuticals and Musk Compounds in Wastewater 121 Helena Zlámalová Gargošová, Josef Čáslavský and Milada Vávrová VI Contents Chapter 7 Determination of Trace Metals in Waste Water and Their Removal Processes 145 Asli Baysal, Nil Ozbek and Suleyman Akman Chapter 8 Nutrient Fluxes and Their Dynamics in the Inner Izmir Bay Sediments (Eastern Aegean Sea) 173 Ebru Yesim Ozkan, Baha Buyukisik and Ugur Sunlu Chapter 9 Effects of Sewage Pollution on Water Quality of Samaru Stream, Zaria, Nigeria 189 Yahuza Tanimu, Sunday Paul Bako and Fidelis Awever Tiseer Preface The generation of wastes as a result of human activities has been continuously speeding up since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Waste water is very often discharged to fresh waters and results in changing ecological performance and biological diversity of these systems. Consequently, the environmental impact of foreign chemicals on water ecosystems and the associated long-term effects are of major international concern. This makes both waste water treatment and water quality monitoring very important issues. The main sources of waste water can be classified as municipal, industrial and agricultural. Depending on the nature of the waste water, effluents may have high contents of harmful organic compounds, heavy metals and hazardous biological materials. Heavy metals are re‐ leased during mining and mineral processing as well as from several industrial waste water streams. On the other hand, large quantities of organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls, organochlorine pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated di‐ benzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans have been released to the environment especially dur‐ ing the last 50 years. Furthermore, relatively new organic substances, namely pharmaceuti‐ cals, cosmetics and endocrine disrupting chemicals, have been found in natural waters close to urban sites in the last 15 years and are now viewed as emerging contaminants. Finally, raw sewage can carry a number of pathogens including bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fun‐ gi. The book offers an interdisciplinary collection of topics concerning waste water treatment technologies and the evaluation of waste water impact on natural environments. The chap‐ ters were invited by the publisher and the authors are responsible for their statements. The book is divided into two sections: the chapters grouped in the first section are mainly con‐ cerned with management and remediation technologies, while the chapters grouped in the second section are mainly focused on analytical techniques and the evaluation of environ‐ mental impact. The first section covers basic knowledge concerning the most frequently used waste water treatment technologies. The suitability of different techniques according to the nature of the effluent to be treated is discussed taking into account advantages and drawbacks. The chapters grouped in the second section of the book cover several aspects of modern techniques for the analysis of trace pollutants. Monitoring of water quality is re‐ quired to assess the effects of pollution sources on aquatic ecosystems. Sensitive and selec‐ tive techniques, often necessary for the evaluation of the effects of waste water streams on natural waters, are comprehensive overviewed. VIII Preface We hope that this publication will be helpful for graduate students, environmental profes‐ sionals and researchers of various disciplines related to waste water. We would like to ac‐ knowledge the authors, who are from different countries, for their contributions to the book. We wish to offer special thanks to the Publishing Process Managers for their important help throughout the publishing process. Fernando S. García Einschlag and Luciano Carlos Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), CCT-La Plata CONICET, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Section 1 Management and Remediation Technologies