Fate and transformation of silver nanoparticles in urban wastewater systems

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3866-3877

  Kaegi, Ralf ^a   Voegelin, Andreas ^a   Ort, Christoph ^a   Sinnet, Brian ^a   Thalmann, Basilius ^a   Krismer, Jasmin ^b   Hagendorfer, Harald ^c   Elumelu, Maline ^a   Mueller, Elisabeth ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Sewer channel; Silver nanoparticles; Silver speciation; Sulfidation; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EFFLUENTS; GOLD COATINGS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; SEWERS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRAVEL TIME; WASTEWATER; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ACID VOLATILE SULFIDES; POLY VINYL PYRROLIDONE; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SULFIDATION; SULFIDATION KINETICS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN WASTEWATER SYSTEM; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SULFIDE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GOLD; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REACTION KINETICS; SEWER NETWORK; SILVER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFIDE; TRANSFORMATION; URBAN AREA; WASTE FACILITY; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BATCH PROCESS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; FLOW RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWER; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84879030284     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.11.060     Document Type: Article

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