Refractory organic carbon and sulfur in the biotransformed by-products in commercial linear alkylbenzenesulfonate (LAS) Identifications of arylsulfonates

Tenside, Surfactants, Detergents

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-156

  Kolbener P ^a,e,j   Ritter, A ^a,e,k   Corradini, F ^a,e,h,i   Baumann, U ^a,c,d,e   Cook, A M ^b,f,g  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Technical High School of Winterthur   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^e EMPA

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^k TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BYPRODUCTS; CARBON; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SULFUR;

BRANCHED CHAIN ALKYLBENZENE SULFONATE; DIALKYLTETRALINESULFONATE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA OPTICAL ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; REFRACTORY ORGANIC CARBON;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 0030100724     PISSN: 09323414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/tsd-1996-330212     Document Type: Article

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