Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the conventional activated sludge treatment process: Fate and mass balance

Environmental Research

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 245-257

  Katsoyiannis, Athanasios ^a   Samara, Constantini ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chlorinated pesticides; PCBs; Phase distribution; Sewage sludge; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

OCTANOL; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; MASS BALANCE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EFFLUENT; GREECE; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SLUDGE; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SOLID; SOLUTE; TANK; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

GREECE; HUMANS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 10344241557     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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