Evaluating the behavior of gadolinium and other rare earth elements through large metropolitan sewage treatment plants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3876-3882

  Verplanck, Philip L ^a   Furlong, Edward T ^a   Gray, James L ^a   Phillips, Patrick J ^b   Wolf, Ruth E ^a   Esposito, Kathleen ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c AECOM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AQUATIC SYSTEM; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; EFFLUENT WATERS; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; END-PRODUCTS; LIQUID PHASE; PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; PRIMARY PATHWAY; PRIMARY SLUDGE; PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; RESIDENCE TIME; SLUDGE SAMPLES;

BIOSOLIDS; CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; IMPURITIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RARE EARTHS; RESONANCE; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

GADOLINIUM;

GADOLINIUM;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOSOLID; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DEWATERING; EFFLUENT; GADOLINIUM; METROPOLITAN AREA; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; STABILIZATION; TRACER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METALS, RARE EARTH; SEWAGE;

EID: 77952476487     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903888t     Document Type: Article

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