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Perfluorooctane surfactants in waste waters, the major source of river pollution
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“In general, domestic and industrial wastewater show differing PFAS patterns, with typically higher PFAS concentrations in industrial wastewater than municipal wastewater (Hu et al., 2016;Bossi et al., 2008;Becker et al., 2008;Kim et al., 2021).”
From Mass flow of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a Swedish municipal wastewater network and wastewater treatment plant (2023) · cites this paper as Becker et al., 2008
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“A study in Bavaria, Germany, observed rather high effluent mass flows, on average 2.8 g d -1 for PFOS and 2.2 g d -1 for PFOA (Becker et al., 2008).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Becker, A. M., Gerstmann, S., & Frank, H.
- Venue
- Chemosphere
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-05
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 115-121
- ISSN
- 0045-6535
- Cited by
- 207
- References
- 4
- Language
- en
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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