Perfluorinated Compounds’ Analysis, Environmental Fate and Occurrence: The Llobregat River as Case Study

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue , 2012, Pages 193-237

  Llorca, Marta ^a   Pérez, Francisca ^a   Farré, Marinella ^a   Picó, Yolanda ^b   Barceló, Damià ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Liquid chromatography; Llobregat River; Mass spectrometry; Perfluorinated compounds; Sediments; Surface water; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983153490     PISSN: 1867979X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/698_2012_147     Document Type: Chapter

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