Identification of novel micropollutants in wastewater by a combination of suspect and nontarget screening

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 184, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-32

  Hug, Christine ^a,b   Ulrich, Nadin ^a   Schulze, Tobias ^a   Brack, Werner ^a   Krauss, Martin ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

High resolution mass spectrometry; Nontarget screening; Polar contaminants; Suspect screening; WWTP effluent

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FALSE POSITIVE DETECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRIES; NON-TARGET SCREENINGS; RETENTION TIME PREDICTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT; WWTP EFFLUENT;

AUTOMATION; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER POLLUTION;

EFFLUENTS;

EFFLUENT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; IONIZATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; RETENTION TIME; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SAMPLING;

HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONTARGET SCREENING; POLAR CONTAMINANTS; SUSPECT SCREENING; WWTP EFFLUENT;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84883885660     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.07.048     Document Type: Article

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