The possibility of removal of endocrine disrupters from paper mill waste waters using anaerobic and aerobic biological treatment, membrane bioreactor, ultra-filtration, reverse osmosis and advanced oxidation processes

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 132, Issue , 2010, Pages 33-44

  Balabanic D ^a,c   Hermosilla, D ^b   Blanco, A ^b   Merayo, N ^b   Klemenčič, A Krivograd ^d  

^a Pulp and Paper Institute   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

advanced oxidation processes; aerobic treatment; anaerobic treatment; endocrine disrupting compounds; membrane filtration; waste water treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTOR; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; REPTILIA;

EID: 78149277396     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ETOX100041     Document Type: Article

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