Mass loading and fate of linear and cyclic siloxanes in a wastewater treatment plant in Greece

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1824-1832

  Bletsou, Anna A ^a,b   Asimakopoulos, Alexandros G ^a,b   Stasinakis, Athanasios S ^c   Thomaidis, Nikolaos S ^b   Kannan, Kurunthachalam ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHENS , GREECE; CYCLIC COMPOUNDS; DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; INFLUENT WASTEWATERS; LINEAR AND CYCLIC SILOXANES; MASS LOADINGS; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SLUDGE SAMPLES; SOLID-LIQUID; TOTAL MASS; TREATED WASTEWATER; VOLATILIZATION LOSS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENTS; LOADING; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SORPTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

SILOXANE;

BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SLUDGE; VOLATILIZATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GREECE; SLUDGE; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

GREECE; SEWAGE; SILOXANES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84874035755     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304369b     Document Type: Article

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