Assessment of indoor airborne contamination in a wastewater treatment plant

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-72

  Teixeira, Juliana V ^a,b   Miranda, Sandra ^a   Monteiro, Ricardo A R ^a   Lopes, Filipe V S ^a   Madureira, Joana ^a   Silva, Gabriela V ^a   Pestana, Nazaré ^b   Pinto, Eugénia ^a   Vilar, Vítor J P ^a   Boaventura, Rui A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b Campus Universitário de Santiago   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioaerosols; Indoor airborne; Volatile organic compounds; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS; AIRBORNE CONTAMINATION; BACTERIA CONCENTRATIONS; BIOAEROSOLS; CO CONCENTRATIONS; COLONY FORMING UNITS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INDOOR AIR; INDOOR AIRBORNE; INDOOR/OUTDOOR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE LIMITS; PRIMARY TREATMENT; SAMPLING SITE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; FUNGI; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CONTAMINATION;

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; INDOOR AIR; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; HUMIDITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORMALDEHYDE; FUNGI; HUMANS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84871940897     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2533-0     Document Type: Article

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