Occurrence of pharmaceutically active compounds during 1-year period in wastewaters from four wastewater treatment plants in Seville (Spain)

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 164, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 1509-1516

  Santos, J L ^a   Aparicio, I ^a   Callejon M ^a   Alonso, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pharmaceutical compound; Removal; Temporal evolution; Wastewater; Wastewater quality; WWTP operational parameters

Indexed keywords

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS; ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CONCENTRATION OF; CONTROL DESIGNS; DICLOFENAC; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; KETOPROFEN; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; NAPROXEN; NERVOUS STIMULANTS; PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUND; PHARMACEUTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; REMOVAL RATES; SEVILLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER QUALITY; WWTP OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS;

AMIDES; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DRUG PRODUCTS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DRUG; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

DRUG RESIDUES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPAIN; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SEVILLA; SEVILLE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 62649147324     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2008.09.073     Document Type: Article

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