Fate and Occurrence of Pharmaceutically Active Organic Compounds during Typical Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

Figure 2

Distributions of the classes of refractory organic compounds in the influent and effluent from three types of typical pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plants: (a), (c), and (e) represent the influent of antibiotic wastewater, Chinese traditional medicine wastewater, and chemical synthesis wastewater, respectively; (b), (d), and (f) represent the corresponding effluent.

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