Toxicity of conventional, elemental chlorine-free, and totally chlorine- free kraft-pulp bleaching effluents assessed by short-term lethal and sublethal bioassays

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2487-2496

  Tarkpea, Maria ^a   Eklund, Britta ^a   Linde, Margareta ^a   Bengtsson, Bengt Erik ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Bleached kraft mill effluent; Elemental chlorine free; Reproduction; Totally chlorine free

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTAL CHLORINE-FREE (ECF) BLEACHING; HARDWOOD; SOFTWOOD; TOTALLY CHLORINE-FREE (TCF) BLEACHING; TOXIC EMISSION FACTORS (TEF);

ALGAE; BIOASSAY; BLEACHED PULP; BLEACHING; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KRAFT PULP; OZONE; TOXICITY;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

BLEACHING AGENT; CHLORINE; CHLORINE DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BLEACHING; DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL; REPRODUCTION; WOOD;

EID: 0032692202     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620181115     Document Type: Article

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