Dr. Sue Ellen Costa Bottrel

email: sue.bottrel@ufjf.br

I am a Ph.D. in Sanitation, Environment, and Water Resources from the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). I have graduated in Chemistry also from the UFMG (2007). I am Adjunct Lecturer III in the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and is a part of the permanent faculty team of the Civil Engineering Postgraduate Program at UFJF (PEC/UFJF). The researcher focus on domestic and industrial wastewater treatment, advanced oxidative processes (AOP), environmental microcontaminants (dynamics, detection/quantification, and treatment), analytical chemistry (chromatography and physicochemical analyses in environmental matrices), waste methanation, and treatment and reuse of water treatment plant residues.

Knowledge Area: Sanitation and Environment
Lines of Research: Environmental Technologies / Natural Resources Monitoring and Management

Modules:

• Environmental Chemistry
• Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment

Research Projects:

• 2023 – Atual. Utilization of water treatment plant residues as an alternative source of iron in the Fenton process for wastewater treatment.
  • Financiador(es): Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG)
• 2019 – 2022. Removal of pharmaceuticals and resistant bacteria in secondary wastewater from WWTP through Advanced Oxidative Processes.
  • Financiado(es): Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 
• 2018 – 2022. Characterization and sustainable treatment solutions for domestic and agro-industrial waste and effluents aiming to enhance environmental health.
  • Financiador(es): Fundação Nacional de Saúde (FUNASA).

Recent Outcomes:

• AZEVEDO, TAIZA DOS SANTOS ; SANTOS, JULIANA PALERMO EVANGELISTA DOS ; MONTEIRO NETO, JOÃO ; GOMES, FERNANDA BENTO ROSA ; Bottrel, Sue Ellen Costa ; MOUNTEER, ANN HONOR ; PEREIRA, RENATA DE OLIVEIRA . Removal of endocrine-disrupting chemical mixtures in water using chlorination and photolysis. Water Science and Technology-Water Supply, v. 23, p. 1284-1296, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2023.022

• GOMES, FERNANDA BENTO ROSA ; FERNANDES, PEDRO ANTÔNIO ALVES ; Bottrel, Sue Ellen Costa ; BRANDT, EMANUEL MANFRED FREIRE ; PEREIRA, RENATA DE OLIVEIRA . Fate, occurrence, and removal of estrogens in livestock wastewaters. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, v. 86, p. 814-833, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2022.238.

• DE AQUINO, SÉRGIO FRANCISCO ; BRANDT, EMANUEL MANFRED FREIRE ; Bottrel, Sue Ellen Costa ; GOMES, FERNANDA BENTO ROSA ; SILVA, SILVANA DE QUEIROZ . Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Brazilian Water and the Risks They May Represent to Human Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, v. 18, p. 11765, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211765

• Bottrel, Sue Ellen C.; PEREIRA, PEDRO C. ; DE OLIVEIRA PEREIRA, RENATA ; LEÃO, MÔNICA M. D. ; AMORIM, CAMILA C. . Oxidation of ethylenethiourea in water via ozone enhanced by UV-C: identification of transformation products. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, v. 26, p. https://link.sp, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-2560-7
• SILVA, R. P. T. ; Bottrel, S.E.C. ; SANTOS, A. S. P. ; PEREIRA, R. O. . Avaliação do processo Fenton utilizando um resíduo como fonte alternativa de ferro para remoção de azul de metileno em meio aquoso. Materia-Rio de Janeiro, v. 26, p. 1-23, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1517-707620210003.13014

Current Supervisions:

MSc

• Fernanda Bento Rosa Gomes. Assessment of ozonation as a pre-treatment for anaerobic digestion of dairy manure wastewater. Início: 2021. 
• Vinícius Marques Louzada. Evaluation of ozonation as a pre-treatment for aerobic sludge prior to co-digestion in a UASB reactor.. Início: 2020.  (Coorientadora).
• Sumáya Karla Faria Neves. Evaluation of estrogenic activity in raw and treated effluent in a treatment plant with an extended aeration activated sludge system.. Início: 2020. (Coorientadora).