Occurrence, fate and ecotoxicological assessment of pharmaceutically active compounds in wastewater and sludge from wastewater treatment plants in Chongqing, the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 618-630

  Yan, Qing ^a,b   Gao, Xu ^a   Chen, You Peng ^a,c   Peng, Xu Ya ^a   Zhang, Yi Xin ^a   Gan, Xiu Mei ^a   Zi, Cheng Fang ^a   Guo, Jin Song ^a,c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chongqing Engineering Research Center of High Resolution and Three Dimensional Dynamic Imaging Detection Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Apparent solid water partition coefficient; Ecotoxicological risk; Mass balance analysis; Pharmaceutically active compound (PhACs); Sludge; Treatment efficiency

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ANTIBIOTICS; BIODEGRADATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISKS; MASS BALANCE ANALYSIS; PHARMACEUTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS; SLUDGE; SOLID-WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; TREATMENT EFFICIENCY;

EFFLUENTS;

AMLODIPINE; ATORVASTATIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BEZAFIBRATE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOFIBRIC ACID; DICLOFENAC; ERYTHROMYCIN; GEMFIBROZIL; IBUPROFEN; METOPROLOL; MOXIFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; ROXITHROMYCIN; SIMVASTATIN; SULFADIAZINE; SULFADIMIDINE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICOLOGY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLUDGE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

CHINA; CHONGQING; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

ALGAE;

APPARENT SOLID-WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISK; MASS BALANCE ANALYSIS; PHARMACEUTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUND (PHACS); SLUDGE; TREATMENT EFFICIENCY;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SEWAGE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84886627174     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.09.032     Document Type: Article

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