Particulate and colloidal silver in sewage effluent and sludge discharged from British wastewater treatment plants

Chemosphere

Volumn 112, Issue , 2014, Pages 49-55

  Johnson, Andrew C ^a   Jürgens, Monika D ^a   Lawlor, Alan J ^b   Cisowska, Iwona ^a   Williams, Richard J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exposure; Nanoparticles; River; Sewage effluent; Silver

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FILTRATION; NANOPARTICLES; RIVERS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SILVER; SOILS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOLOGICAL FILTERS; ENGLAND AND WALES; EXPOSURE; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; TERTIARY TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

SILVER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SILVER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FILTRATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; RIVER; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SLUDGE; SOIL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EXPOSURE; NANOPARTICLES; RIVER; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SILVER;

COLLOIDS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENGLAND; FILTRATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; RIVERS; SEWAGE; SILVER; WALES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84904423554     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.03.039     Document Type: Article

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