Fate of zinc and silver engineered nanoparticles in sewerage networks

Water Research

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-84

  Brunetti, Gianluca ^a,c   Donner, Erica ^a   Laera, Giuseppe ^b   Sekine, Ryo ^a   Scheckel, Kirk G ^d   Khaksar, Maryam ^a   Vasilev, Krasimir ^a   De Mastro, Giuseppe ^c   Lombi, Enzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fate; Nanoparticles; Sewer; Silver; Transformations; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; EFFLUENTS; SEWERS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES; FATE; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; LIMITED INFORMATION; SEWERAGE NETWORKS; SEWERAGE SYSTEM; TRANSFORMATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER STREAMS; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS;

CHLORIDE; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; LITHIUM; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SULFATE; SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; ZINC NANOPARTICLE;

EFFLUENT; ENGINEERING; HEAVY METAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFIDE; TRANSFORMATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOENGINEERING; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SYNTHESIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84959852087     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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