Air concentrations and particlegas partitioning of polyfluoroalkyl compounds at a wastewater treatment plant

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 363-371

  Vierke, Lena ^a,b   Ahrens, Lutz ^a   Shoeib, Mahiba ^a   Reiner, Eric J ^c,d   Guo, Rui ^c,d   Palm, Wolf Ulrich ^b   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^e   Harner, Tom ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

atmosphere; passive air sampler; PFC; PFOA; PFOS; WWTP

Indexed keywords

AERATION; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SAMPLER; TURBULENCE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

EID: 80051979107     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN10133     Document Type: Article

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