Comparative toxicity assessment of ozone and activated carbon treated sewage effluents using an in vivo test battery

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2610-2620

  Stalter, Daniel ^a   Magdeburg, Axel ^a   Oehlmann, Jörg ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced oxidation process; Dreissena polymorpha; Endocrine disruption; Estrogenicity; Genotoxicity; Lumbriculus variegatus; Oxidation byproducts; Potamopyrgus antipodarum; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BYPRODUCTS; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; OXIDATION; OZONE; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; OZONIZATION; TOXICITY;

ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES; CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ESTROGENICITY; GENOTOXICITIES; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; OXIDATION BY-PRODUCTS; POTAMOPYRGUS; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ESTROGEN; OZONE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FILTRATION; GENOTOXICITY; OXIDATION; OZONE; SEWAGE; TOXICITY TEST; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTRATION; GENOTOXICITY; HEMOLYMPH; IN VIVO STUDY; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; OZONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SNAIL; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; EMBRYOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM;

EID: 77950949252     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.01.023     Document Type: Article

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