eng URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3077 sewage sludge water treatment wastewater water pollutant Wastewaters contain a very large list of micropollutants and transformation products of environmental concern. All these (mostly) synthetic organic chemicals enter the wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) with influents and due to incomplete or zero removal are released in the aquatic environment. Thus, the study of the fate of the emerging pollutants and their transformation products in WWTPs is of paramount environmental importance and can also provide valuable information related to consumption trends. Target screening procedures are limited to a small fraction of these substances, due to the inability to obtain standards for all that substances and the ignorance of the existence of many of them. Recent advances in high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) have opened up new windows of opportunity in the field of complex samples analysis. Suspect screening, with suspected substances based on prior information but with no reference standard, is a powerful tool which allows a large increment in the number of compounds to be evaluated. However, in most cases many of the peaks showing greater intensity not correspond to substances included in the target and suspect screening lists. These substances are potentially relevant, due to their high concentration, and their identification is environmentally important. Nevertheless, full identification of unknown compounds is often difficult and there is no guarantee of a successful outcome. The aim of the present work is the development and application of a workflow for the tentative identification of relevant unknown substances (not detected in the previously applied target and suspect methods) using liquid chromatography quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC–QToF-MS). 1 pp. LOMv1.0 creator LOMv1.0subject matter expert LOMv1.0 Project Final Beneficiary LOMv1.0 Project Executing Organisation 2014 Digital Library of the Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" abstract types Text Wastewater treatment plants Micropollutants Transformation products Mass spectrometry Liquid chromatography 123287 application/pdf http://repository.edulll.gr/edulll/bitstream/10795/3077/2/3077_2.2.1%20Non-target%20approaches%20MPs%20-%20SETAC%20%20Barcelona%202014.pdf URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3077 LOMv1.0creator 2016-05-10T07:36:11Z LOMv1.0validator 2016-05-10T07:36:11Z LOMv1.0 gre no no Copyright EYD-EPEDBM (Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning")