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Sorption of 17α-Methyltestosterone onto Soils and Sediment

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In aquafarming, 17α-methyltestosterone (MT) is widely used as an anabolic steroid to induce the sex of Nile tilapia fry to male in order to increase production yield. Nile tilapia fry is fed at a rate of 0.06 mg of MT/kg of feed during the first 21 days after hatching. MT not consumed by the fish fry may be sorbed onto the sediment in the fish ponds which may contaminate the environment when released from the ponds. Using soils and sediment from a Nile tilapia masculinization pond as sorbents in batch sorption experiments, the linear sorption coefficients (K d) of MT were found to range from 1.2 to 168.8 L/kg with an average K oc value of 9,450 L/kg. The linear sorption coefficients of MT were found to correlate with the organic carbon contents of the sorbents. Sorption of MT onto sand, garden soil, and sediment was not impacted by pH, but the sorption of MT onto sediment was found to be impacted by the salinity of the water. The salting out coefficient of MT in saline water was found to be approximately 0.87 L/mol.

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Financial support was provided by the Higher Education Research Promotion and National Research University Project of Thailand, Office of the Higher Education Commission (Project No. FW1017A). This work was conducted as part of the research cluster “Fate and Removal of Emerging Micropollutants in Environment” granted by the Center of Excellence for Environmental and Hazardous Waste Management and the Special Task Force for Activating Research (STAR) of Chulalongkorn University.

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  1. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Say Kee Ong

  2. Center of Excellence for Environmental and Hazardous Waste Management, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Pawittra Chotisukarn & Tawan Limpiyakorn

  3. International Postgraduate Programs in Environmental Management, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Pawittra Chotisukarn

  4. Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Tawan Limpiyakorn

  5. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Say Kee Ong

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Ong, S.K., Chotisukarn, P. & Limpiyakorn, T. Sorption of 17α-Methyltestosterone onto Soils and Sediment. Water Air Soil Pollut 223, 3869–3875 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-012-1155-z

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