Evaluating the fate of six common pharmaceuticals using a reactive transport model: Insights from a stream tracer test

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 458-460, Issue , 2013, Pages 344-354

  Riml, Joakim ^a,b   Wörman, Anders ^a   Kunkel, Uwe ^c,e   Radke, Michael ^d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Global sensitivity analysis; Pharmaceutical residues; Reactive transport modeling; Retention; Tracer test

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; PHARMACEUTICAL RESIDUES; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; RETENTION; TRACER TESTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DRUG PRODUCTS; MODELS; SORPTION;

RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

BEZAFIBRATE; CLOFIBRIC ACID; DICLOFENAC; IBUPROFEN; METOPROLOL; NAPROXEN; SURFACE WATER; WATER;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HYDROLOGY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; REACTION RATE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SORPTION; STREAMWATER; TRACER; WATER FLOW;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SORPTION; STREAM TRACER TEST; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; BEZAFIBRATE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLOFIBRIC ACID; IBUPROFEN; METOPROLOL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NAPROXEN; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84877815773     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.077     Document Type: Article

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