Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Environment: Environmental Fate and Transformation

Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 311-330

  Manzetti, Sergio ^a,b  

^a Fjordforsk Institute of Science and Technology   (Norway)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

environmental; fate; pollution; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH); transformation

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AROMATIZATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOIL POLLUTION; VOLCANOES; WASTE INCINERATION; WATER POLLUTION;

CARCINOGENIC COMPOUNDS; DRILLING ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FATE; OIL ACTIVITIES; PETROGENIC; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TOXIC COMPOUNDS; TRANSFORMATION;

DEFORESTATION;

EID: 84880027861     PISSN: 10406638     EISSN: 15635333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10406638.2013.781042     Document Type: Article

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