PMID- 16574188
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070306
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0045-6535 (Print)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 65
IP  - 9
DP  - 2006 Nov
TI  - Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the conventional activated sludge 
      treatment process: model predictions against experimental values.
PG  - 1634-41
AB  - The FATE and treatibility estimator (FATE) model, developed by the United States 
      Environmental Protection Agency was used for the prediction of the FATE of 26 
      persistent organic pollutants (POPs), i.e. 7 PCBs and 19 organochlorine compounds 
      (OCs), during the conventional activated sludge treatment process applied in the 
      waste water treatment plant (WWTP) of Thessaloniki, Greece. The removal rates 
      predicted by the model for the primary and the secondary treatment stages were 
      found to differ substantially from those experimentally measured. When the 
      overall treatment was considered, the differences between measured and model 
      predicted removals were within acceptable limits of confidence. Possible reasons 
      that might cause deviations from experimental values were suggested to be the 
      wastewater content in dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and/or the low 
      concentrations of POPs in untreated wastewater.
FAU - Katsoyiannis, Athanasios
AU  - Katsoyiannis A
AD  - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Chemistry, Environmental 
      Pollution Control Laboratory, Thessaloniki GR-54124, Greece. 
      athanasios.katsogiannis@jrc.it
FAU - Zouboulis, Anastasios
AU  - Zouboulis A
FAU - Samara, Constantini
AU  - Samara C
LA  - eng
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20060330
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 7440-44-0 (Carbon)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adsorption
MH  - Carbon/analysis
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/*isolation & purification
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - *Waste Disposal, Fluid
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*isolation & purification
EDAT- 2006/04/01 09:00
MHDA- 2007/03/07 09:00
CRDT- 2006/04/01 09:00
PHST- 2005/11/21 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2006/02/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2006/02/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2006/04/01 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/03/07 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/04/01 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(06)00221-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.02.030 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2006 Nov;65(9):1634-41. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.02.030. Epub 
      2006 Mar 30.