Project

Pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment: chemical trace analysis, environmental behaviour and ecological effects

Code

01N02711

Duration

01 January 2011 → 31 October 2015

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Kristof Demeestere

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Analytical separation and detection techniques
- Environmental chemistry
- Environmental impact and risk assessment
- Environmental monitoring
Engineering and technology
- (Waste)water treatment processes

Keywords

pharmaceuticals sample preparation mass spectrometry partitioning ecotoxicity

Project description

Pharmaceuticals are internationally considered as emerging environmental micorpollutants. This project aims at gaining innovative insights into the environmental partitioning and ecotoxicological effects of the studied pharmaceuticals. Therefore, innovative chemical analytical methods will be developed, optimized and validated to measure trace concentration levels of selected pharmaceuticals in aqueous and solid environmental matrices.