Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Review Article

Occurrence of Surface Active Agents in the Environment

Table 3

Research data of aerobic biodegradation assay of selected surfactants.


Type of analytes	Type of sample	Degradation product	Half life or removal efficiency (%/h)	The literature

C₁₈TMAC	Activated sludge		50/2.5	[102]
C₁₆DMAC	Sea water		50/>360	[103]
QAC		Trimethylamine, dimethylamine, and methylamine	50/72–192	[103]
DT, TT, HT BDD; BDT BDH			50/72–120 50/96–192 50/>360	[20]
DEEDMAC	Sludge, soil, and river water		99/24	[104]

LAS	Surface waters	Mono- and dicarboxylic SPC	50/10–15 h —/96–120 —/168/25°C —/600/13°C	[24, 105]
			50/24 70–90/168	[106]
			56–76/720	[107]
	Sludge amended soils		50/168–792	[10, 108–110]
	Wastewater		50/168–792	[10, 108–110]
	Wastewater		72.2–100/—	[31]
AES		Alcohols, aldehydes, fatty acids, and sulfur	75.1–98.2/—	[31, 111]
SAS		Alcohols, aldehydes, fatty acids, and sulfur	63.5–93.3/—	[29]
NPEO		NPEC, NP, OP, APDECs	50–80/96–576	[32–34]

NPE₉	River water River sediment		—/2304 —/<240	[35]

NPE	River water	NPE₂, NPE₁, NPEC₁, and NPEC₂	68/720/7°C 96/720/25°C	[112]
AEO	River water		79.4–99.7/—	[31]
AEO	Fresh water, activated sludge	Fatty acids, polyethylene glycols	64–~100/72–96	[18, 39, 113–116]
Branched AEO	Fresh water, activated sludge	CAEOs	44/720	[24]

TMAC: tetradecyl trimethyl ammonium chloride; DMAC: dodecyl trimethyl ammonium chloride; QAC: quaternary ammonium compounds; DT: dodecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide; TT: tetradecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide; HT: hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide; BDD: dodecyl benzyl dimethy ammonium bromide; BDT: tetradecyl benzyl dimethyl ammonium chloride; BDH: hexadecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride; DEEDMAC: diethyl ester dimethyl ammonium chloride; LAS: linear alkylbenzene sulfonates; AES: alkyl ethoxysulfates; SAS: secondary alkane sulfonate; NPEC: nonylphenoxy-monocarboxylates; NP: nonylphenol, OP: octylphenol; APDEC: alkylphenol diethoxycarboxylates; CAEO: alkylcarboxylate metabolites; AEO: alcohol ethoxylates.