Acta Biologica Hungarica
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Volume 60: Issue 3
Whole effluent risk estimation for a small recipient watercourse
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Maha RefaeyUniversity of Pannonia Institute of Environmental Engineering H-8200 Veszprém P.O. Box 158 Hungary

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Nóra KovátsUniversity of Pannonia Institute of Environmental Engineering H-8200 Veszprém P.O. Box 158 Hungary

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Á. KárpátiUniversity of Pannonia Institute of Environmental Engineering H-8200 Veszprém P.O. Box 158 Hungary

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P. ThuryUniversity of Pannonia Institute of Environmental Engineering H-8200 Veszprém P.O. Box 158 Hungary

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Pages:
293–299
Online Publication Date:
22 Aug 2009
Publication Date:
01 Sep 2009
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/abiol.60.2009.3.6
Keywords:
Whole effluent toxicity; environmental risk; biodegradation; bioluminescence; ToxAlert
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Whole effluent toxicity is most often considered as a static parameter. However, toxicity might change as degradation processes, especially biodegradation goes by and intermediate products appear. These intermediates can even be more toxic than the original effluent was, posing higher risk to the ecosystem of the recipient water body. In our test series it was assessed how toxicity of a municipal wastewater sample changes during biodegradation taking into consideration different temperature regimes (10, 20 and 30 °C). Results proved our null hypothesis: after the high initial toxicity of the fresh effluent sample toxicity did show a further increase. Biodegradation resulted in toxicity reduction only after an approx. 2 week-period.

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