Occurrence and degradation of estrogenic nonylphenol and its precursors in Northeast Kansas wastewater treatment plants

Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 203-213

  Keller, Heather ^a   Xia, Kang ^a   Bhandari, Alok ^b  

^a KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Effluents; Influents; Kansas; Surface active agents; Wastewater treatment; Water treatment plants

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; HORMONES; PHENOLS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

BIOSOLIDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 0142168084     PISSN: 1090025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-025X(2003)7:4(203)     Document Type: Article

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