In situ air-water and particle-water partitioning of perfluorocarboxylic acids, perfluorosulfonic acids and perfluorooctyl sulfonamide at a wastewater treatment plant

Chemosphere

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 941-948

  Vierke, Lena ^a,b   Ahrens, Lutz ^c   Shoeib, Mahiba ^c   Palm, Wolf Ulrich ^b   Webster, Eva M ^d   Ellis, David A ^d   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^e   Harner, Tom ^c  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fate; Henry's law; PFCA; PFSA

Indexed keywords

AIR; DISSOLUTION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EQUILIBRIUM PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; EQUILIBRIUM PARTITIONING; FATE; HENRY'S LAW; PERFLUOROCARBOXYLIC ACID; PFCA; PFSA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

DATA HANDLING;

ORGANOFLUORINE DERIVATIVE; PERFLUOROCARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PERFLUOROOCTYLSULFONAMIDE; PERFLUOROSULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EQUILIBRIUM; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PARTITIONING; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; DISSOLUTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHASE PARTITIONING; PKA; QUALITY CONTROL; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 84880044259     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.02.067     Document Type: Article

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