Priority and emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and fate during sludge treatment

Waste Management

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1217-1226

  Mailler, R ^a   Gasperi, J ^a   Chebbo, G ^a   Rocher, V ^b  

^a Universite Paris Est   (France)

^b SIAAP   (France)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Centrifugation; Emerging pollutant; Priority pollutant; Sludge; Thermal drying

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CENTRIFUGATION; DRYING; SEWAGE SLUDGE; POLLUTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CONCENTRATION PHENOMENA; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; EMERGING POLLUTANTS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY POLLUTANTS; SLUDGE; THERMAL DRYING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

POLLUTION; SLUDGE DIGESTION;

ALKYLPHENOL; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT; DECABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; ETHER; NONYLPHENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; POLLUTANT; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; WASTE TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; SLUDGE DRYING; SLUDGE TREATMENT; THERMOREGULATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANALYSIS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMISTRY; DESICCATION; FRANCE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER POLLUTION; BIOREMEDIATION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; POLLUTANT; THERMAL DRYING; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING;

FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; PARIS; VILLE DE PARIS;

PARISIA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CENTRIFUGATION; DESICCATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARIS; SEWAGE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84901977450     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.03.028     Document Type: Article

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