PH-dependent biotransformation of ionizable organic micropollutants in activated sludge

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 13760-13768

  Gulde, Rebekka ^a,b   Helbling, Damian E ^c   Scheidegger, Andreas ^a   Fenner, Kathrin ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOCONVERSION; INFERENCE ENGINES; RATE CONSTANTS; SORPTION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENT; CONCENTRATION-TIME; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; ORGANIC MICRO-POLLUTANTS; SORPTION COEFFICIENTS; SPECIATION MODELING;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

CATION; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; FLOCCULATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PH; SORPTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PH; POLARIZATION; POLLUTANT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ABSORPTION; ANALYSIS; BAYES THEOREM; METABOLISM; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ABSORPTION, PHYSICOCHEMICAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84918780534     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5037139     Document Type: Article

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