Oxidative conversion as a means of detecting precursors to perfluoroalkyl acids in urban runoff

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9342-9349

  Houtz, Erika F ^a   Sedlak, David L ^a  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HYDROXYL RADICALS; MEDIAN VALUE; OXIDATIVE CONVERSION; OXIDATIVE TREATMENT; PERFLUORINATED ACIDS; PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS; PERFLUOROALKYL ACIDS; PERFLUOROALKYL CHAINS; PH CONDITION; SAMPLE TREATMENT; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; URBAN RUNOFF;

OXIDATION; SEWAGE;

RUNOFF;

PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROALKYL CARBOXYLIC ACID; PERFLUOROALKYL SULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONAMIDE; RUNOFF; STORM WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; OXIDATION; PYROLYSIS; RUNOFF; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARTICLE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; SUNLIGHT; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUOROCARBONS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SAN FRANCISCO; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFONIC ACIDS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865721924     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es302274g     Document Type: Article

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