Estrogen nitration kinetics and implications for wastewater treatment

Water Environment Research

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 772-778

  Gaulke, Linda S ^a   Strand, Stuart E ^a   Kalhorn, Thomas F ^b   Stensel, H David ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

17 ethinylestradiol; 17 estradiol; Centrate; Estrogens; Estrone; Nitration; Nitrite; Nitrosomonas europaea; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; METABOLISM; NITRATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

CENTRATE; ESTROGENS; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; NITRITE; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; NITRITE; NITROGEN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRITE; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CATALYST; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; KINETICS; METABOLIC REGULATION; NITRATION; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

EID: 70349127489     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143009X407285     Document Type: Article

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