Concentrations and sources of Dechlorane Plus in sewage sludge

Chemosphere

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 692-697

  De la Torre, Adrián ^a   Sverko, Ed ^b   Alaee, Mehran ^b   Martínez, María Ángeles ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dechlorane Plus; Flame retardant; Sewage sludge; Waste water treatment plant

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; FLAME RETARDANTS; ISOMERS; MIXTURES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; DECHLORANE PLUS; HALOGENATED FLAME RETARDANT; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT;

DECHLORANE PLUS; FLAME RETARDANT; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ETHER; MANUFACTURING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHOSPHORUS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; STREAM; URBAN AREA; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRY WEIGHT; HALOGENATION; ISOMER; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SLUDGE; SPAIN; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 78650738014     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.10.097     Document Type: Article

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