Animal manure separation technologies diminish the environmental burden of steroid hormones

Martin Hansen; Erland Björklund; Olga Popovic; Lars Stoumann Jensen; Carsten Suhr Jacobsen; David L. Sedlak; Bent Halling-Sørensen

doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00059

Animal manure separation technologies diminish the environmental burden of steroid hormones

Martin Hansen, Erland Björklund, Olga Popovic, Lars Stoumann Jensen, Carsten Suhr Jacobsen, David L. Sedlak, Bent Halling-Sørensen

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Abstract

Newly developed treatment technologies are capable of separating livestock manure into a liquid fraction and a solid fraction using sedimentation, mechanical, and/or chemical methods. These technologies offer a potential means of distributing nutrients to agricultural lands without the unwanted environmental risks associated with the release of steroid hormones to adjacent waterways. To assess the potential benefit of these technologies in reducing the level of release of steroid hormones to adjacent waterways, distribution profiles of nine steroid hormones (pregnenolone, progesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, androstenedione, testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, estrone, 17α-estradiol, and 17β-estradiol) were determined in raw swine manure, and in solid and liquid fractions separated from ten full-scale manure separation systems. Steroid hormone concentrations, normalized for nitrogen content, were significantly higher in separated solids than in liquids. If separated liquids are applied instead of raw manure, steroid hormone loading can be reduced by a factor of 2 at a constant nitrogen fertilization level.

Original language	English
Journal	Environmental Science & Technology Letters
Volume	2
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	133-137
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00059
Publication status	Published - 14 Apr 2015

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