Fate of artificial sweeteners in wastewater treatment plants in New York State, U.S.A.

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 13668-13674

  Subedi, Bikram ^a   Kannan, Kurunthachalam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; FOOD ADDITIVES; PEPTIDES; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; SUGARS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EMISSIONS; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; PRIMARY EFFLUENT; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SORPTION COEFFICIENTS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

LOADING;

ACESULFAME; ASPARTAME; SACCHARIN; SUCRALOSE; SWEETENING AGENT; ACETOSULFAME; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEWAGE; SUCROSE; THIAZINE DERIVATIVE; TRICHLOROSUCROSE; WASTE WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); SORPTION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MASS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SLUDGE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ASPARTAME; NEW YORK; PARTICULATE MATTER; SACCHARIN; SEWAGE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; THIAZINES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84918828709     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es504769c     Document Type: Article

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