Waste water treatment plants as sources of polyfluorinated compounds, polybrominated diphenyl ethers and musk fragrances to ambient air

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-132

  Weinberg, Ingo ^a,b   Dreyer, Annekatrin ^a,c   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air; PBDE; PFAS; PFC; WWTP

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLES; AMBIENT AIR; GLASS FIBER FILTERS; HIGH-VOLUME SAMPLER; HPLC-MS/MS; MUSK FRAGRANCES; PARTICLE PHASE; PBDE; PFAS; PFC; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; REFERENCE SITES; SYNTHETIC MUSK FRAGRANCES; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WWTP;

ETHERS; FRAGRANCES; GLASS FIBERS; IMPURITIES; METHANOL; MUSKEG; ODORS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACETONE; HEXANE; METHANOL; MUSK; ORGANOFLUORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYFLUORINATED COMPOUND; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; PBDE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 78349306281     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.09.023     Document Type: Article

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