Occurrence of different classes of perfluorinated compounds in Greek wastewater treatment plants and determination of their solid-water distribution coefficients

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 239-240, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-31

  Arvaniti, Olga S ^a,b   Ventouri, Elpida I ^b   Stasinakis, Athanasios S ^a   Thomaidis, Nikolaos S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Mass loading; Perfluorinated compounds; Removal; Sorption; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; DRY WEIGHT; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; MASS LOADINGS; PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS; PERFLUORONONANOIC ACIDS; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLUDGE SAMPLES; SOLID-PHASE; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION; TREATED WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

AMIDES; CARBOXYLATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFLUENTS; LOADING; REMOVAL; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SORPTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WASTEWATER; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROPENTANOIC ACID; SULFONATED IMMUNOGLOBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SLUDGE; SORPTION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DOMESTIC WASTE; DRY WEIGHT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUOROCARBONS; GREECE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84867739660     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.02.015     Document Type: Article

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