Perfluorooctanoic Acid Degradation Using UV-Persulfate Process: Modeling of the Degradation and Chlorate Formation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 772-781

  Qian, Yajie ^a,b   Guo, Xin ^b   Zhang, Yalei ^a   Peng, Yue ^b   Sun, Peizhe ^b   Huang, Ching Hua ^b   Niu, Junfeng ^c   Zhou, Xuefei ^a   Crittenden, John C ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

BY-PRODUCT FORMATION; CARBONATE SPECIES; CHLORATE FORMATION; DOC CONCENTRATIONS; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; RADICAL CONCENTRATION; SULFATE RADICALS; ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT;

SURFACE WATERS;

CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHLORATE; CHLORIDE; FLUOROCARBON; OCTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; SULFATE; SULFATE RADICAL; WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PHOTOLYSIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

CAPRYLATES; CARBONATES; CHLORATES; CHLORIDES; FLUOROCARBONS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOLYSIS; SULFATES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84955240236     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03715     Document Type: Article

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