Occurrence of bisphenol A in surface and drinking waters and its physicochemical removal technologies

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 16-38

  Liang, Liping ^a,b   Zhang, Jing ^b   Feng, Pian ^c   Li, Cong ^d   Huang, Yuying ^a   Dong, Bingzhi ^c   Li, Lina ^a   Guan, Xiaohong ^c  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adsorption; advanced oxidation; Bisphenol A (BPA); conventional oxidation; membrane filtration; occurrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939882477     PISSN: 20952201     EISSN: 2095221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-014-0697-2     Document Type: Review

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