Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging

Water Research

Volumn 108, Issue , 2017, Pages 365-372

  Mintenig, S M ^a,b   Int Veen, I ^a   Loder M G J ^a,c   Primpke, S ^a   Gerdts, G ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enzymatic purification; FT IR spectroscopy; Microplastic identification; Pollution; Synthetic fibres; Treated waste water

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EFFLUENTS; FOCUSING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FREEZING; HEAVY METALS; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED REFLECTION; MICROPLASTIC; POLLUTION; POLYETHYLENES; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; THAWING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; ZINC CHLORIDE;

ENZYMATIC PURIFICATION; FOCAL-PLANE ARRAYS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED IMAGING; FT-IR SPECTROSCOPY; MICROPLASTIC IDENTIFICATION; MICROPLASTICS; POINT-SOURCES; SIGNIFICANT POINTS; TREATED WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

PURIFICATION;

PLASTIC; POLYESTER; POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER; ZINC CHLORIDE; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CHLORIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; PLASTIC; POLYMER; PURIFICATION; SEPARATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; GERMANY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; SYNTHETIC FIBER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEWAGE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 85000716653     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2016.11.015     Document Type: Article

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