Tracing the limits of organic micropollutant removal in biological wastewater treatment

Water Research

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 240-249

  Falås, Per ^a   Wick, Arne ^b   Castronovo, Sandro ^b   Habermacher, Jonathan ^a   Ternes, Thomas A ^b   Joss, Adriano ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological treatment; Degradation; Micropollutants; Pharmaceuticals; Redox; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BATCH REACTORS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; HERBICIDES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; UREA;

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; BIOLOGICAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; MICROPOLLUTANT REMOVALS; MICROPOLLUTANTS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS; REDOX; SYNTHETIC WASTEWATER;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACICLOVIR; ATENOLOL; CARBON; DIATRIZOATE; DICLOFENAC; DIURON; NITROGEN; TRAMADOL;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; DRUG; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REDOX CONDITIONS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; EFFLUENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; CHEMISTRY; SEWAGE;

BIOFILMS; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84961178290     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2016.03.009     Document Type: Article

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