Assessment of a novel device for onsite integrative large-volume solid phase extraction of water samples to enable a comprehensive chemical and effect-based analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 581-582, Issue , 2017, Pages 350-358

  Schulze, Tobias ^a   Ahel, Marijan ^b   Ahlheim, Jörg ^a   Aït Aïssa, Selim ^c   Brion, François ^c   Di Paolo, Carolina ^d   Froment, Jean ^a,e,f   Hidasi, Anita O ^g   Hollender, Juliane ^g,h   Hollert, Henner ^d   Hu, Meng ^a,d   Kloß, Anett ^a   Koprivica, Sanja ^b   Krauss, Martin ^a   Muz, Melis ^a,d   Oswald, Peter ⁱ   Petre, Margit ^a   Schollée, Jennifer E ^g,h   Seiler, Thomas Benjamin ^d   Shao, Ying ^d   Slobodnik, Jaroslav ⁱ   Sonavane, Manoj ^c   Suter, Marc J F ^g   Tollefsen, Knut Erik ^e,j   Tousova, Zuzana ^k,l   Walz, Karl Heinz ^l   Brack, Werner ^a,d   more..

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Environmental Institute   (China)

^j NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^k MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^l MAXX Mess und Probenahmetechnik GmbH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Applicability domain; Automated water sampler; Bioassay analysis; Chemical analysis; Effect based analysis; Large volume solid phase extraction; LVSPE

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; PHASE SEPARATION; QUALITY CONTROL; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

APPLICABILITY DOMAIN; EFFECT-BASED ANALYSIS; LARGE VOLUMES; LVSPE; WATER SAMPLERS;

EXTRACTION;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTRACTION METHOD; HOLISTIC APPROACH; MONITORING; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT DIRECTED ANALYSIS; GENERAL DEVICE; IN VITRO STUDY; LARGE VOLUME SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION DEVICE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ALGAE;

EID: 85008465307     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.140     Document Type: Article

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