Natural versus wastewater derived dissolved organic carbon: Implications for the environmental fate of organic micropollutants

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4227-4237

  Neale, Peta A ^a   Antony, Alice ^b   Gernjak, Wolfgang ^a   Leslie, Greg ^b   Escher, Beate I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; Micropollutants; Partition coefficient; Water recycling

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; DISSOLUTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; SILICONES; STREAM FLOW; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RECYCLING;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE OF ORGANICS; HYDROPHOBICS; MICROPOLLUTANTS; NATURAL ORGANICS; NONYLPHENOLS; OCTANOL-WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENTS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

DIMETICONE; NONYLPHENOL; OCTANOL; ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RECYCLING; SORPTION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 79959779635     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.05.038     Document Type: Article

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