Emerging Organic Pollutants in Waste Waters and Sludge

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barceló, Damià (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Water Pollution, 5I1
• Subjects: Water pollution.; Environmental management.; Environmental pollution.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Environmental Management.; Terrestrial Pollution.

Over the past fifteen years regulatory agencies have relied on their approaches to characterise and control the release of toxic substances into the aquatic environment: a GC/MS analysis for U.S. EPA designated 126 priority pollutants and 132 dangerous substances according to the European 76/464/CEE...

Table of Contents:

• M. Petrovic and D. Barceló: Surfactants and related pollutants in waste waters, sediments and sludges
• J.G. Lo: Volatile organic compounds in wastewaters during treatment
• E. Benfenati, M. Negri: Organic contaminants in leachates from industrial waste landfills
• E. Eljarrat: Toxicity potency assessment of persistent organic pollutants in sediments and sludges
• A.R. Blanch and J. Jofre: Pathogens in wastewaters
• J. Philp: Wastewater toxicity assessment by whole cell biosensor
• S. Diaz Cruz, D Barceló: Occurrence and analysis of selected pharmaceuticals in wastewaters and sludges.