Occurrence and fate of PBDEs and novel brominated flame retardants in a wastewater treatment plant in Harbin, China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 19246-19256

  Li, Bo ^a   Sun, Shao Jing ^a   Huo, Chun Yan ^a,b   Li, Wen Long ^a   Zhu, Ning Zheng ^a   Qi, Hong ^a   Kong, Ling Jun ^c   Li, Yi Fan ^a   Ma, Wan Li ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Wudalianchi Environmental Monitoring Station   (China)

Author keywords

Fate; Novel brominated flame retardants; Occurrence; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SLUDGE; TRANSFORMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

CHINA; HARBIN; HEILONGJIANG;

DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84976488953     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-7142-y     Document Type: Article

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