Review article

Surfactants: Methods for determination and removal of surfactants in environment

Nada Glumac ; Međimursko veleučilište u Čakovcu
Nikola Sakač orcid.org/0000-0001-5515-2368 ; Geotehnički fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Marija Jozanović orcid.org/0000-0002-9509-8105 ; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku
Nikolina Novotni-Horčička orcid.org/0000-0002-4914-5521 ; Varkom d.d.

Abstract

Surfactants reduce the surface tension of liquids. Surfactants are mostily biodegradable and environmentally friendly, it is still important to quantify them because they can easily reach the environment and couse toxic effects in organisms, they are a barier for surface oxygene exchange, and they accumulate in microorganisms, plants, animals, sediment and soil. Analytical methods usualy used for surfactant analysis are: titrations (visual, potentiometric, tensidimetric, turbidimetric), spectrophotometric (MBAS-method), chromatographic (high performance liquid chromatography-HPLC, thin layer chromatography), flow-injection methods, etc. Removal of surfactants from waters is carried out on wastewater treatment plants by physico-chemical and biological processes and trough the biodegradation in the sawage system and in environment.

Keywords

surfactants, determination methods, biological treatment of surfactants

Hrčak ID:

292076

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/292076

Publication date:

23.1.2023.

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