Photodegradation of sulphamethoxazole under UV-light irradiation at 254 nm

Environmental Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 489-494

  Ngouyap Mouamfon, Mamadou Valéry ^a   Li, Wenzhen ^a   Lu, Shuguang ^a   Qiu, Zhaofu ^a   Chen, Nuo ^a   Lin, Kuangfei ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Pharmaceuticals; Photodegradation; Sewage treatment plant effluent; Sulphamethoxazole; UV254

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFLUENT TREATMENT; HYDROXYLATION; IRRADIATION; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC CARBON; PH EFFECTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOLYSIS; RATE CONSTANTS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; TURBIDITY;

ADVERSE EFFECT; DEGRADATION RATE; HUMIC ACID; INORGANIC ANIONS; LOW PRESSURE ULTRAVIOLETS; MILLI-Q WATER; MONOCHROMATIC WAVELENGTH; PSEUDO-FIRST-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; SEWAGE-TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT; SOLUTION PH; SULPHAMETHOXAZOLE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UV-LIGHT IRRADIATION; WATER MATRICES;

EFFLUENTS;

ANION; BICARBONATE; CHLORIDE ION; HUMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFATE;

ANTIBIOTICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HUMIC ACID; ION EXCHANGE; IRRADIATION; MINERALIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PH; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOLYSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TURBIDITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; KINETICS; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MINERALIZATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOLYSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; TURBIDITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 77951149858     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330903514854     Document Type: Article

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