Publications by Florence Bonvin

Removal of trace organic contaminants from wastewater by superfine powdered activated carbon (SPAC) is neither affected by SPAC dispersal nor coagulation

Florence Bonvin, Loïc Decrey, Tamar Kohn

Powdered activated carbon (PAC) is increasingly used as tertiary treatment for the removal of trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) from wastewater (WW). To enhance the sorption kinetics and capacity, the PAC particles can be milled down to super fine powdere ...

2020

Super-fine powdered activated carbon (SPAC) for efficient removal of micropollutants from wastewater treatment plant effluent

Florence Bonvin, Tamar Kohn, Livia Jost, Léa Cécile Randin

In an effort to mitigate the discharge of micropollutants to surface waters, adsorption of micropollutants onto powdered activated carbon (PAC) after conventional wastewater treatment has been identified as a promising technology for enhanced removal of ph ...

Elsevier2016

Spatial extent and ecotoxicological risk assessment of a micropollutant-contaminated wastewater plume in Lake Geneva

Florence Bonvin, Jeremy Samuel Arey, Tamar Kohn, Auréline Grange, Lorenzo Martelletti, Rebecca Rutler, Yosef Akhtman

In this study, the spatial extent of a wastewater-influenced water mass originating from a wastewater treatment plant outlet in Vidy Bay (Lake Geneva) was monitored by two manned submersibles from June to August 2011. The main goal was to assess whether mi ...

Springer Verlag2014

Direct effects of dominant winds on residence and travel times in the wide and open lacustrine embayment: Vidy Bay (Lake Geneva, Switzerland)

Ulrich Lemmin, Florence Bonvin, David Andrew Barry, Tamar Kohn, Roham Bakhtyar, Amir Mehdi Razmi

Numerical simulations were carried out to determine the residence (or flushing) time of water in Vidy Bay (north shore of Lake Geneva) for different meteorological conditions. A hydrodynamic model (Delft3DFLOW) was applied to simulate the flow field in the ...

Springer Verlag2014

Spatio-Temporal Presence of Micropollutants and their Metabolites in Lake Geneva and Susceptibility to Direct and Indirect Photodegradation Processes

Florence Bonvin

Invisible to the human eye, yet ubiquitous... The occurrence and the potential adverse effects of micropollutants in the environment are uncontested. Due to incomplete removal by conventional wastewater treatment technologies, the aquatic environment is co ...

EPFL2013

Direct photolysis of human metabolites of the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole: Evidence for abiotic back-transformation

Florence Bonvin, Julien Omlin, Tamar Kohn, Rebecca Rutler, Timothy Strathmann

The presence of potentially persistent and bioactive human metabolites in surface waters gives rise to concern; yet little is known to date about the environmental fate of these compounds. This work investigates the direct photolysis of human metabolites o ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Micropollutant dynamics in Vidy Bay - A coupled hydrodynamic-photolysis model to assess the spatial extent of ecotoxicological risk

Florence Bonvin, David Andrew Barry, Tamar Kohn, Amir Mehdi Razmi

The direct discharge of effluent wastewater into Vidy Bay (Lake Geneva) results in the formation of an effluent plume with locally high concentrations of wastewater-derived micropollutants. The micropollutant hotspots above the wastewater outfall present a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Pharmaceuticals and their human metabolites in Lake Geneva: occurrence, fate and ecotoxicological relevance

Florence Bonvin, Tamar Kohn, Rebecca Rutler

This study assesses the presence, fate and effects of five environmentally relevant pharmaceuticals and eight of their corresponding human metabolites in Lake Geneva. Over a 10-month period, lake samples were taken at various depths and locations in the Vi ...

2012

Spatial and temporal presence of a wastewater-derived micropollutant plume in Lake Geneva

Florence Bonvin, Tamar Kohn, Rebecca Rutler

This study discusses the occurrence and environmental risk associated with a micropollutant plume originating from the direct discharge of treated wastewater into the Vidy Bay of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. The temporal variations and spatial extent of the p ...

2011

Occurrence and fate of micropollutants in the Vidy Bay of Lake Geneva, part II: Micropollutant removal between wastewater and raw drinking water

Frédéric Bonvin, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Dominique Grandjean, Chiara Perazzolo, Florence Bonvin, Tamar Kohn

The occurrence and removal of 58 pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, corrosion inhibitors, biocides, and pesticides, were assessed in the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) of the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as in the effluent-receiving water ...

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Press2010