Pharmaceutically active compounds: Their removal during slow sand filtration and their impact on slow sand filtration bacterial removal

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 524-525, Issue , 2015, Pages 124-135

  D'Alessio, Matteo ^a,b   Yoneyama, Bunnie ^b   Kirs, Marek ^a   Kisand, Veljo ^c   Ray, Chittaranjan ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial removal; PhACs; Schmutzdecke; Slow sand filtration

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; BOILERS; CAFFEINE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER; MICROORGANISMS; POTABLE WATER; SAND; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WATER;

ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; BACTERIAL REMOVAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PHACS; PHARMACEUTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS; SCHMUTZDECKE; SLOW SAND FILTRATION;

WATER FILTRATION;

CAFFEINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; GEMFIBROZIL; GROUND WATER; PHARMACEUTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUND; PHENAZONE; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DRUG; SILICON DIOXIDE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; DRUG; FILTRATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL REMOVAL; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILTER; BIOFILTRATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEPTIC TANK; SEWER; SLOW SAND FILTRATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE DISPOSAL; ANALYSIS; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; FILTRATION; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FILTRATION; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SILICON DIOXIDE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84927732931     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.014     Document Type: Article

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