A great number
of synthetic organic compounds have been detected into the aquatic environment.
Some of them such as endocrine disrupters, perfluorinated compounds,
benzotriazoles, benzothiazoles and artificial sweeteners are contained in every
day products. As a result they often detected in Sewage Treatment Plants and
domestic wastewater seems to be the major way for their transfer to the
environment. Most of these compounds are not included in European or national
legislations and they characterized as emerging contaminants.
WATERMICROP aims to investigate the occurrence and behavior of
different categories of emerging contaminants during wastewater and sludge
treatment and to study their fate during wastewater disposal. Identification of
transformation products will also be performed using advanced chromatographic
analyses and proteomics techniques.
The specific objectives of
WATERMICROP
are:
1. To develop analytical methods for the determination of emerging contaminants
in environmental samples
2. To study the occurrence of emerging contaminants in
Greek
in Sewage Treatment Plants
3. To investigate the fate of emerging contaminants during biological and
physicochemical wastewater treatment processes and to study their behavior
during wastewater disposal to the aquatic environment
4. To identify the metabolites which are formed due to (bio)transformation of
emerging contaminants contained in domestic wastewater
For the
implementation of
WATERMICROP,
an interdisciplinary approach will be followed and scientists with different
academic background (chemists, environmental engineers and environmental
scientists) will be cooperated. Work Packages will be implemented by three
cooperating Research Teams (RT1, RT2, RT3), consisting of scientists originating
from University of the Aegean (UA), National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens (NKUA), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (AUT) and Technical University of Denmark DTU).
Duration: 01 January 2012 - 30 September 2015
Coordination: University of the Aegean, Greece
Contact:
Assistant Professor Athanasios S. Stasinakis
(Coordinator and RT1 Leader)
Department of
Environment
University of
the Aegean
Mytilene
81100, Greece
Phone: 0030
22510 36257
Email:
astas@env.aegean.gr
Assistant Professor Daniel Mamais
(RT2 Leader)
School of
Civil Engineering
National
Technical University of Athens
Zografou,
Athens 15773, Greece
Phone: 0030
210 7722901
Email:
mamais@central.ntua.gr
Assistant Professor Nikolaos S. Thomaidis
(RT3 Leader)
Department of
Chemistry
National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens
Zografou,
Athens 157 71, Greece
Phone: 0030
210 7274317
Email:
ntho@chem.uoa.gr