Occurrence of eight household micropollutants in urban wastewater and their fate in a wastewater treatment plant. Statistical evaluation

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 481, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 459-468

  Pasquini, Laure ^a   Munoz, Jean François ^b   Pons, Marie Noëlle ^a   Yvon, Jacques ^a   Dauchy, Xavier ^b   France, Xavier ^c   Le, Nang Dinh ^a   France Lanord, Christian ^a   Görner, Tatiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

^c GEMCEA   (France)

Author keywords

Household micropollutants; Modeling; Sludge; Statistical analysis; Urban wastewater; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ANTIBIOTICS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CATCHMENTS; EFFLUENTS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECLAMATION; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT; MICROPOLLUTANTS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; SLUDGE; URBAN WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

4 NONYLPHENOL; AMMONIA; ERYTHROMYCIN; IBUPROFEN; OFLOXACIN; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; SUCRALOSE; TRICLOSAN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WASTE FACILITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TURBIDITY; URBAN AREA; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

HOUSEHOLD MICROPOLLUTANTS; MODELING; SLUDGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; CAPRYLATES; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUOROCARBONS; HOUSING; IBUPROFEN; OFLOXACIN; PHENOLS; SUCROSE; TRICLOSAN; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84896054973     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.02.075     Document Type: Article

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