Fate of steroid estrogens in Australian inland and coastal wastewater treatment plants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3351-3358

  Braga, Olga ^a   Smythe, George A ^a   Schäfer, Andrea I ^b   Feitz, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MARINE APPLICATIONS; MICROFILTRATION; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SOLID WASTES; SORPTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COASTAL WASTEWATERS; ESTROGENS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RAW SEWAGE;

HORMONES;

ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL;

ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; TREATMENT PLANT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFILTRATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEASHORE; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT;

AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ESTRONE; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 18344371714     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0501767     Document Type: Article

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