Mass Balance of Fipronil and Total Toxicity of Fipronil-Related Compounds in Process Streams during Conventional Wastewater and Wetland Treatment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1519-1526

  Supowit, Samuel D ^a   Sadaria, Akash M ^a   Reyes, Edward J ^a   Halden, Rolf U ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEWAGE; TOXICITY; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS; EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT; WETLAND TREATMENT;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

FIPRONIL; FIPRONIL AMIDE; FIPRONIL DESULFINYL; FIPRONIL SULFIDE; FIPRONIL SULFONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PESTICIDE; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHLORINATION; COMPOSITE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FIPRONIL; INVERTEBRATE; MASS BALANCE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE; TOXICITY; WATER TREATMENT; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; CHLORINATION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOLYSIS; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TURBIDITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; INVERTEBRATE; PROCEDURES; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; INVERTEBRATES; PESTICIDES; PYRAZOLES; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

EID: 84957601679     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04516     Document Type: Article

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