Pollution of NPEOs in four municipal sewage treatment plants in the north of China

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering in China

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 196-201

  Hou, Shaogang ^a,b   Sun, Hongwen ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Anyang Engineering College   (China)

Author keywords

Nonylphenol (NP); Nonylphenol polyethoxylates (NPEOs); Sewage treatment plants (STPs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249899671     PISSN: 16737415     EISSN: 16737520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-007-0034-0     Document Type: Article

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