Hospital wastewater treatment by membrane bioreactor: Performance and efficiency for organic micropollutant elimination

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1536-1545

  Kovalova, Lubomira ^a   Siegrist, Hansruedi ^a   Singer, Heinz ^a   Wittmer, Anita ^a   McArdell, Christa S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT; ANTIMYCOTICS; ANTIVIRALS; BETA-BLOCKERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION; COMPLEX MATRICES; FLOW-PROPORTIONAL SAMPLING; HOSPITAL WASTEWATER; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIA; IODINATED X-RAY CONTRAST MEDIA; MBR EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MICROPOLLUTANTS; PILOT-SCALE MEMBRANES; SANITARY COLLECTION SYSTEM; SPE-HPLC-MS; TARGET ANALYTES;

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOREACTORS; EFFICIENCY; EFFLUENTS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES;

HOSPITALS;

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; DRUG METABOLITE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL;

BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORROSION; DRUG; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INSTALLATION; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SANITATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; NITRIFICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SANITATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOREACTORS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISINFECTANTS; FILTRATION; HOSPITALS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; SWITZERLAND; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84856732714     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203495d     Document Type: Article

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