The fate of steroid estrogens: Partitioning during wastewater treatment and onto river sediments

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 175, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 431-441

  Gomes, Rachel L ^a   Scrimshaw, Mark D ^b   Cartmell, Elise ^c   Lester, John N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Partitioning; Sediment; Sewage; Steroid

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FIELD STUDIES; LABORATORY SCALE; PARTITIONING; RECEIVING WATERS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; RIVER THAMES; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SORPTION ISOTHERMS; STEROID; STEROID ESTROGENS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOREMEDIATION; RECLAMATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; SORPTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT;

ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; STEROID;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADSORPTION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PARTITIONING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STEROID; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADSORPTION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOTHERM; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ESTROGENS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RIVERS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ENGLAND; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79952438914     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1541-1     Document Type: Article

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