Cyanotoxins: Characteristics, production and degradation routes in drinking water treatment with reference to the situation in Serbia

Chemosphere

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 421-441

  Pantelić, Dijana ^a   Svirčev, Zorica ^a   Simeunović, Jelica ^a   Vidović, Milka ^b   Trajković, Ivana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cyanotoxins; Drinking water; Microcystin LR; Water treatments

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; METABOLITES; POTABLE WATER; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS; CYANOTOXINS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTRACELLULAR METABOLITES; MICROCYSTIN-LR; TASTE AND ODORS; TREATMENT PROCESS; WATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ANATOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BETA METHYLAMINO ALANINE; CYANOTOXIN; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN; DRINKING WATER; ENDOTOXIN; IRON; IRON SALT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MICROCYSTIN; NODULARIN; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; SAXITOXIN; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; FRESHWATER; METABOLITE; PHYTOPLANKTON; TOXIN; WATER TREATMENT;

ANABAENA CIRCINALIS; ANABAENA FLOS-AQUAE; ANABAENA PLANKTONICA; APHANIZOMENON; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHLORINATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEGRADATION; DISINFECTION; DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION; FENTON REACTION; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE PROCESS MICROFILTRATION; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MICROCYSTIS FLOS-AQUAE; NANOFILTRATION; OXIDATION; OZONATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOLYSIS; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS; RAPID FILTRATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; REVIEW; SERBIA; SLOW SAND FILTRATION; SONOLYSIS; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER COAGULATION TREATMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

SERBIA;

ANIMALIA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84875053599     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.01.003     Document Type: Review

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