Mass loading and fate of perfluoroalkyl surfactants in wastewater treatment plants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1408-1414

  Sinclair, Ewan ^a   Kannan, Kurunthachalam ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CORRELATION METHODS; EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COMMERCIAL WASTE; PERFLUOROALKYL SURFACTANTS; POSTCOLUMN INFUSION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUORODECANOATE; PERFLUORONONANOATE; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONATE; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROUNDECANOATE; SURFACTANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CORRELATION METHODS; EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; POLLUTANT; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; EXTRACTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUSTRY; IONIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SLUDGE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEWAGE; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33644869079     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051798v     Document Type: Article

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