Behavior of metallic silver nanoparticles in a pilot wastewater treatment plant

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3902-3908

  Kaegi, Ralf ^a   Voegelin, Andreas ^a   Sinnet, Brian ^a   Zuleeg, Steffen ^a   Hagendorfer, Harald ^b   Burkhardt, Michael ^c   Siegrist, Hansruedi ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c FHO Fachhochschule Ostschweiz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG PARTICLES; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MASS BALANCE CONSIDERATIONS; METALLIC SILVER; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; NANO SCALE; SECONDARY CLARIFIER; SLUDGE AGE; TEM; TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSOLIDS; CLARIFICATION; CLARIFIERS; EFFLUENTS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TOXICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SILVER;

SILVER; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOSOLID; EFFLUENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILVER; SLUDGE; TOXICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ABSORPTION; AERATION; ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISPERSION; EFFLUENT; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER; PARTICLE SIZE; REACTION TIME; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLUDGE; TANK; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTANT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SEWAGE; SILVER; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79955527010     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1041892     Document Type: Article

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