METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POST-TREATING WASTE WATER FROM SEWAGE PLANTS

摘要

The invention relates to a novel method for treating waste water discharged from a purification or sewage treatment plant for local waste water. The invention is characterized in that the amount of endocrinically active hormones and hormones dangerous to aquatic environments or hormone metabolit es from the group of oestranes contained in the discharged water is reduced in the flow of the waste water leaving the waste-water purification or sewage plant by guiding the same in the form of a continuous fluid body through the field or radiation cone of a radiation source emitting at least one type of ionizing radiation from the group of gamma, x-ray and electron radiation. Th e invention also relates to a device for carrying out said method and to the u se thereof in addition to said device.