The role of activated carbon and disinfection on the removal of endocrine disrupting chemicals and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs from wastewater

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 698-708

  Noutsopoulos, Constantinos ^a   Mamais, Daniel ^a   Mpouras, Thanasis ^a   Kokkinidou, Despina ^a   Samaras, Vasilios ^b   Antoniou, Korina ^a   Gioldasi, Marianna ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

chlorination; emerging pollutants; PAC; UV; wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICALS; CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENTS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; POLLUTION DETECTION; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; EMERGING POLLUTANTS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS; NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS; PAC; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; UV; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DICLOFENAC; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IBUPROFEN; KETOPROFEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; ISOTHERM; RADIATION DOSE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CARBON; CHLORINE; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; DRUG RESIDUES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; HALOGENATION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84891831388     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2013.846923     Document Type: Article

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