Publications
28/11/2016
Geography-Referenced Regional Exposure Assessment Tool for European Rivers [GREAT-ER] – Literature Overview
Literature Overview...
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28/11/2016
Towards a better understanding of the bioavailability and partition behaviour of cationic surfactants (Postdoc project at UFZ Leipzig)
Executive summary UFZ-Leipzig Postdoc project
The main goal of this research project was to improve our understanding of the sorption processes of positively charged compounds (organic cations). Sorp...
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28/11/2016
Characterizing the Bioavailability of Cationic Surfactants using Passive samplers
Introduction
Cationic surfactants are widely used chemicals, and trace level have been detected in sediment monitoring
Free concentrations of cationic surfactants are lower, but difficult to d...
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17/11/2016
Fatty Alcohols: anthropogenic and natural occurrence in the environment
Summary
There are ten chapters in the book as follows:
1 Definitions
2 Biological Synthesis
3 Occurrence in Biota
4 Consumer and Cosmetic Product Uses and Production
5 Environmental Transforma...
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15/11/2016
MonitoringBase Surfactants overview and users manual
Introduction
Over the last 20 – 30 years, a considerable amount of resources have been spent by the detergent industries (AISE/CESIO), as well as governments and other parties, on the monitoring of...
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15/11/2016
Removal and environmental exposure of alcohol ethoxylates in US sewage treatment
Abstract
Alcohol ethoxylates (AE) are a common nonionic surfactant employed in consumer and industrial detergents worldwide.
Commercial AE are typically complex mixtures composed of 4100 homologous...
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15/11/2016
Predicting the sorption of fatty alcohols and alcohol ethoxylates to effluent and receiving water solids
Abstract
Alcohol ethoxylates (AEs) are an important group of nonionic surfactants. Commercial AEs consist of a mixture of several homologues of varying carbon chain length (Cx) and degree of ethoxyla...
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15/11/2016
Monitoring of environmental fingerprints of alcohol ethoxylates in Europe and Canada
Abstract
Recent improvements in methodology for the determination of alcohol ethoxylates (AE) in effluents now enable measurement of the full range of AE components, at ng/L levels, in the same analy...
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15/11/2016
Fate of free and linear alcohol-ethoxylate-derived fatty alcohols in activated sludge
Abstract
Pure homologues of C12, C14, and C16 alcohols and the linear alcohol ethoxylates, AE C13E9 and C16E9 were tested in a batch-activated sludge die-away system to assess their biodegradation...
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15/11/2016
Ecotoxicity quantitative structure–activity relationships for alcohol ethoxylate mixtures based on substance-specific toxicity predictions
Abstract
Traditionally, ecotoxicity quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSARs) for alcohol ethoxylate (AE) surfactants have been developed by assigning the measured ecotoxicity for comme...
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15/11/2016
Determination of the fate of alcohol ethoxylate homologues in a laboratory continuous activated-sludge unit study
Abstract
Environmental monitoring indicates that the distribution of alcohol ethoxylate (AE) homologues in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents differs from the distribution in commercial AE p...
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15/11/2016
Aquatic risk assessment of alcohol ethoxylates in North America and Europe
Abstract
An environmental risk assessment for alcohol ethoxylates (AE) is presented that integrates wastewater treatment plant monitoring, fate, and ecotoxicity research with a new application of mix...
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15/11/2016
Types, numbers and performance of decentralized wastewater treatment plants in the EU-15
Background and objectives
The ERASM project team has asked Lettinga Associates Foundation (LeAF) to offer its services within a research project that investigates the effectiveness of decentralized s...
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15/11/2016
Impact of decentralised wastewater treament plants on environmental exposure of detergent surfactants
This position paper describes the impact of decentralised wastewater treatment on environmental exposure of detergent surfactants....
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15/11/2016
Terrestrial risk assessment for linear alkyl benzene sulfonate
Introduction
A comparison of the estimated environmental concentration and the effect concentrations (in the laboratory or field) in the receiving compartment form the basis of environmental risk ass...
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