EU research project SANDRINE
Biosensor tracing of endocrine disrupting compounds in surface water, waste water and sludge for water quality assessment
Partners:
- Technical University Berlin (GER)
- University of Tübingen (GER)
- Kings College, London (UK)
- École Ploytechnique Fédéral Lausanne (CH)
- Technical University of Munich (GER)
- Cranfield University (UK)
- Gas, Electricity and Water Works Cologne AG (GER)
- Screen Tech, Leiden (NL)
- Departament de Quimica Ambiental, Barcelona (ESP)
- Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona (ESP)
Funding: European Union (EU)
Duration: February 1999 - January 2002
Project description and results:
Since February 1999, the EU research project "Biosensor tracing of endocrine disrupting compounds in surface water, waste water and sludge for water quality assessment" (SANDRINE) was processed at the institute in Pirna-Copitz. The main objective of this project was the development of new test methods for the determination of the endocrine potential in wastewater. Eight international working groups from Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland and Germany cooperated in this project. The task of the Dresden working group was to operate a laboratory wastewater treatment plant and to carry out part of the chemical analysis. In the first phase, influent samples (synthetic wastewater with known pollutant contents), effluent and activated sludge samples were provided for the research partners. In a second phase, the results from the tests with the laboratory wastewater treatment plant were to be compared with measurements at a large wastewater treatment plant in Spain.
The tests in the laboratory sewage treatment plant were carried out in accordance with the OECD test method 303A, or were carried out in accordance with DIN 38 412.