On the fate of LAS, NPEOs and DEHP in municipal sewage sludge during composting

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1634-1642

  Pakou, Constantina ^a,b   Kornaros, Michael ^a   Stamatelatou, Katerina ^a,b   Lyberatos, Gerasimos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Composting; Di ethyl hexyl phthalate (DEHP); Linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS); Nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEO); Sewage sludge

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTERS; MANURES; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; PHENOLS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIODEGRADATION KINETICS; C/N RATIOS; COMPOSTING SYSTEMS; DI-ETHYL-HEXYL PHTHALATE (DEHP); ETHOXYLATES; FREE AIR SPACES; HIGHER CONCENTRATIONS; LAS REMOVALS; LINEAR ALKYLBENZENE SULFONATES; LINEAR ALKYLBENZENE SULFONATES (LAS); MIXTURE COMPOSITIONS; MULTIPLE XENOBIOTICS; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE SLUDGES; NONYLPHENOL; NONYLPHENOL ETHOXYLATES (NPEO); PHTHALATE; SECONDARY SLUDGES; SLUDGE COMPOSTING; XENOBIOTIC POLLUTANTS;

LITHIUM ALLOYS;

ALKYLBENZENESULFONIC ACID; NONYLPHENOL; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

AUTOMATION; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COMPOSTING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MANURE; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; XENOBIOTICS;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMIDITY; MANURE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE TREATMENT; XENOBIOTIC STRESS;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CITIES; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; ETHYLENE GLYCOLS; OXYGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEWAGE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 56249115243     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.09.025     Document Type: Article

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