Treatment options for the removal and degradation of polyfluorinated chemicals

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue , 2012, Pages 103-125

  Lutze, Holger ^a,b   Panglisch, Stefan ^b   Bergmann, Axel ^b   Schmidt, Torsten C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b IWW WATER CENTRE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degradation; Polyfluorinated compounds; Sorption; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911947405     PISSN: 1867979X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21872-9_6     Document Type: Chapter

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