A critical review of the formation of mono-and dicarboxylated metabolic intermediates of alkylphenol polyethoxylates during wastewater treatment and their environmental significance

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-238

  Chiu, T Y ^a   Paterakis, N ^b   Cartmell, E ^b   Scrimshaw, M D ^c   Lester, J N ^b  

^a AECOM   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkylphenol ethoxylates; Alkylphenoxyacetic acids; Endocrine disrupting compounds; Metabolites; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ALKYL PHENOLS; ALKYLPHENOL ETHOXYLATES; ALKYLPHENOLIC COMPOUNDS; BIODEGRADATION PRODUCTS; CRITICAL REVIEW; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUNDS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE; ESTROGENIC ACTIVITIES; FULL-SCALE SYSTEM; LABORATORY SCALE; MECHANISMS OF FORMATION; METABOLIC INTERMEDIATES; NATURAL HORMONE; NONYLPHENOLS; POLYETHOXYLATES; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS; TERTIARY TREATMENT; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

ACIDS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOMOLECULES; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DEGRADATION; EFFLUENTS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOLS; SEWAGE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RECYCLING;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

ALKYLPHENOL POLYOXYETHYL ETHER; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; ORGANIC MATTER; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; METABOLITE; TOXIC MATERIAL; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

PARTICULATE MATTER; REVIEW; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77649315114     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643380802219517     Document Type: Review

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