Life Cycle Assessment of urban wastewater reuse with ozonation as tertiary treatment. A focus on toxicity-related impacts

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1245-1256

  Muñoz, Ivan ^a   Rodríguez, Antonio ^b   Rosal, Roberto ^b   Fernández Alba, Amadeo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Desalination; EDIP97; Life Cycle Assessment; Ozonation; Reclamation; Recycling; USES LCA; Water

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DESALINATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; GAS EMISSIONS; GASES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEAVY METALS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LIFE CYCLE; OXIDATION; OZONE; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; OZONIZATION; POLLUTION; RECYCLING; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER RECYCLING;

CASE STUDIES; CHARACTERISATION; CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES; ECOTOXICITY; EDIP97; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIALS; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; HUMAN TOXICITIES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; OZONATION; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; REGULATED POLLUTANTS; SPANISHS; TERTIARY TREATMENTS; URBAN WASTEWATERS; USES-LCA; WASTE WATER DISCHARGES; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER POLLUTANTS; WASTEWATER RE USES; WASTEWATER SYSTEMS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DRUG METABOLITE; HEAVY METAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OZONE;

DESALINATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIFE CYCLE; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DESALINATION; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FILTRATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OZONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TOXICITY; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER POLLUTANT;

ECOSYSTEM; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OZONE; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 57049168619     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.09.029     Document Type: Article

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