Analysis of organic compounds in an urban wastewater treatment plant effluent

Environmental Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-306

  Navalon, S ^a   Alvaro, M ^a   Garcia, H ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGÍA QUÍMICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

dissolved organic matter analysis; emergent pollutants; mass spectroscopy; NMR spectroscopy; urban wastewater effluent

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FATTY ACIDS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RESINS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUGARS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; EMERGENT POLLUTANTS; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; URBAN WASTEWATER;

EFFLUENTS;

ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE; AMINO ACID; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BIS(TRIMETHYLSILYL)TRIFLUOROACETAMIDE; CHLOROTRIMETHYLSILANE; FATTY ACID; HYDROXYACID; KETOPROFEN; MONOSACCHARIDE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARACETAMOL; POLYSACCHARIDE; RESIN; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; EFFLUENT; FATTY ACID; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RESIN; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; STEROID; URBAN AREA; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 79953190079     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2010.497501     Document Type: Article

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