Emerging contaminants of environmental concern: Source, transport, fate, and treatment

Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-20

  Yan, Song ^a   Subramanian, S Bala ^a   Tyagi, R D ^a   Surampalli, Rao Y ^b   Zhang, Tian C ^c  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging contaminants; Fire retardants; Molecular biology techniques; Nanomaterial; Pesticides; Pharmaceuticals and personal care products; Plasticizers; Surfactants

Indexed keywords

EMERGING CONTAMINANT; FIRE RETARDANT; FIRE RETARDANTS; NANOMATERIAL; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; DEGRADATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PESTICIDES; PLASTICIZERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SOLVENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CONTAMINATION;

DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SURFACTANT;

EID: 77951061139     PISSN: 1090025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.1944-8376.0000015     Document Type: Article

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