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Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)-derived national discharge loads of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs)
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“PFAS removal in WWTPs has been shown to be related to influent concentrations (Kim et al., 2012), treatment processes (Schuricht et al., 2017), PFAS functional group and perfluorocarbon chain-length (Gagliano et al., 2020), and proportion of industrial wastewater (Becker et al., 2008).”
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“According to previous studies, PFOS is more dominant in domestic wastewater (Chen et al., 2012), while PFOA often dominates in industrial wastewater (Kim et al., 2012).”
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“These are within the range reported in studies in the US (Barisci and Suri, 2021), Australia (Nguyen et al., 2022a), Korea (Kim et al., 2012), and Belgium (Jeong et al., 2022).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kim, S.-K., Im, J.-K., Kang, Y.-M., Jung, S.-Y., Kho, Y. L., & Zoh, K.-D.
- Venue
- Journal of Hazardous Materials
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-01
- Volume
- 201-202
- Pages
- 82-91
- ISSN
- 0304-3894
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 15
- Language
- en
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- Funders
- Ministry of Environment
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