Removal of antibiotics in wastewater: Effect of hydraulic and solid retention times on the fate of tetracycline in the activated sludge process

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5816-5823

  Kim, Sungpyo ^a   Eichhorn, Peter ^b   Jensen, James N ^a   Weber, A Scott ^a   Aga, Diana S ^b  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ADSORPTION; ANTIBIOTICS; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DESORPTION; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME (HRT); SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS (SBR); SOLID RETENTION TIME (SRT); WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DESORPTION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; PARAMETER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SIMULATION; SOLID RETENTION TIME; TECHNIQUE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; KINETICS; TETRACYCLINE; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 23244434427     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050006u     Document Type: Article

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