Quality Assessment of Waste Waters Generated by some Important Hospitals from Cluj County

  • Ocsana Ileana Opriș National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca
  • Carmen Roba BabeÅŸ-Bolyai University, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, 30 Fântânele, 400294 Cluj-Napoca
  • Florina Copaciu Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 3-5 Mănăştur, Cluj-Napoca 400372
  • Andrea Bunea Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 3-5 Mănăştur, Cluj-Napoca 400372
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15835/buasvmcn-asb:11970
Keywords: hospital effluent, physicochemical parameter, waste water, water quality

Abstract

Hospitals produce large quantities of waste water that may contain various potentially hazardous materials. Moreover, these effluents usually do not undergo any specific treatment before being discharged into the urban sewage networks. As a consequence, a proper management of hospital effluents is vital. In the present study, the quality of the effluents generated by 11 important hospitals in Cluj County was investigated. The analysed parameters were: pH, chemical and biochemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, residual free chlorine, and detergents. For all the effluents, the biochemical oxygen demand and the detergents content were within the permissible limits for waste water discharged in the urban sewerage system, while the other parameters exceeded the permissible limits.

 

Published
2016-04-18
Issue
Vol. 73 No. 1 (2016): BULLETIN OF UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE CLUJ-NAPOCA. ANIMAL SCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGIES
Section
Research Articles
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