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@PHDTHESIS{Wehrhan:51799,
author = {Wehrhan, Anne},
title = {{F}ate of veterinary pharmaceuticals in soil: {A}n
experimental and numerical study on the mobility, sorption
and transformation of sulfadiazine},
volume = {66},
school = {Universität Bonn},
type = {Dr. (Univ.)},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {PreJuSER-51799},
isbn = {3-89336-448-X},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Umwelt /
Environment},
pages = {XXI, 134 S.},
year = {2006},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012; Universität Bonn,
Diss., 2006},
abstract = {Among other veterinary pharmaceuticals sulfadiazine (SDZ)
is a widely used antimicrobial substance in intensive
livestock production to prevent and treat diseases. Up to 40
$\%$ of the administered sulfonamides are eliminated as
microbial active substances with the excretions. Antibiotics
such as sulfadiazine reach agricultural soils directly
through grazing livestock or indirectly through the
spreading of manure or sewage sludge on the field. Knowledge
about the fate of antibiotics in soil is crucial to assess
the environmental risk of these compounds, including
possible transport to groundwater. Sorption, transport and
transformation of 4$^{14}$C-labelled SDZ in a silty loam
were investigated using batch-type and column experiments.
The batch sorption/ desorption experiments were conducted at
various concentration levels (0.044 to 13 mg L$^{−1}$
initial solute concentration) and time-scales (0.75 to 272
days). Sorption of SDZ in the investigated soil was
time-dependent and strongly non-linear with regard to the
concentration. The time to reach the apparent sorption
equilibrium was about 20 days. However, desorption was very
slow and 41 days were insufficient to reach the desorption
equilibrium. In annealed soil the sorption affinity was
lower and the desorption was also very slow. Transport of
$^{14}$C-labelled SDZ was investigated in disturbed soil
columns at a constant flow rate of 0.26 cm h$^{−1}$ near
saturation. $^{14}$C-SDZ was applied in different
concentrations (5.7 or 0.57 mg L$^{−1}$) for either a
short or a long pulse duration (7 or 70 hours). Breakthrough
curves (BTCs) of $^{14}$C-SDZ and the non-reactive tracer
chloride were measured. At the end of the leaching period
the soil concentration profiles were determined. The peak
maxima of the BTCs were delayed by a factor of 2 to 5
compared to chloride and the decreasing limbs are
characterized by an extended tailing. The maximum relative
concentrations differed as well as the eluted mass
fractions, ranging from 18 to 83 \% after 500 hours of
leaching. Mineralization of SDZ during the batch and column
experiments was neglectable. Inverse modelling techniques
were used to identify relevant sorption processes of SDZ and
its transformation products during the batch and column
experiments. One-, two- and three-domain sorption models
were tested, involving linear or non-linear, instantaneous
equilibrium, rate-limited reversible and irreversible
sorption. The various sorption concepts were included in a
convective–dispersive transport model for the description
of the column experiments. Models involving similar
processes and complexity were necessary to describe the
characteristic features of the batch and transport
experiments. The non-linear sorption in the batch
experiments was best described by the Freundlich sorption
isotherm and may also be one reason for the pronounced
tailing of the BTCs in the transport experiments.
Rate-limited sorption accounts for the slow attainment of
the apparent sorption equilibrium during the batch
experiments and can also contribute to the tailing of the
BTCs. However, sorption sites exhibiting instantaneous
equilibrium sorption were required in addition to the
kinetic sorption to describe both, the one-day adsorption
and the BTCs of the column transport experiments with the
long pulse duration. Only the consideration of irreversible
sorption enabled [...]},
cin = {ICG-IV},
ddc = {333.7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB50},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11 / PUB:(DE-HGF)3},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/51799},
}