Molecular characterization of effluent organic matter identified by ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2943-2953

  Gonsior, Michael ^a,b   Zwartjes, Matthew ^a   Cooper, William J ^a   Song, Weihua ^a   Ishida, Kenneth P ^c   Tseng, Linda Y ^a   Jeung, Matthew K ^a   Rosso, Diego ^a   Hertkorn, Norbert ^d   Schmitt Kopplin, Philippe ^d,e  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dialkyl tetralin sulfonate; Effluent organic matter; FT ICR MS; Linear alkyl benzene sulfonate; Sulfophenyl carboxylic acid; Surfactants; Ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CITRUS FRUITS; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; MICROFILTRATION; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

EFFLUENT ORGANIC MATTER; FT-ICR MS; LINEAR ALKYL BENZENE; SULFOPHENYL; TETRALINS; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRIES;

EFFLUENTS;

ALKYLBENZENESULFONIC ACID; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFUR; SURFACTANT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIODEGRADATION; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SURFACTANT; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EFFLUENT; FILTER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 79953227803     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.03.016     Document Type: Article

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