From consumption to harvest: Environmental fate prediction of excreted ionizable trace organic chemicals

Water Research

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 85-98

  Polesel, Fabio ^a   Plósz, Benedek Gy ^a   Trapp, Stefan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agricultural sludge reuse; Fate modeling; Ionizable organic trace chemicals; Irrigation; Plant uptake; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; EFFLUENTS; FORECASTING; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS; TISSUE; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURAL SLUDGE REUSE; FATE MODEL; FOOD CROPS; IONIZABLE ORGANIC TRACE CHEMICAL; ORGANICS; PLANT UPTAKE; SLUDGE REUSE; TRACE ORGANIC CHEMICALS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT;

IRRIGATION;

BIOCIDE; CIPROFLOXACIN; FUROSEMIDE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER; TRICLOSAN;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FOOD INTAKE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LITERATURE REVIEW; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; SOFTWARE; SURFACE WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOOD CROP; GRAIN; HARVEST; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PLANT TISSUE; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84937781232     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.06.033     Document Type: Article

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