Evaluation of optical detection methods for waterborne suspensions: Making design criteria for turbidimeters more stringent would enable an integrated approach to turbidity measurement and particle detection

Journal / American Water Works Association

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 98-112

  Sethi, Virendra ^a,b,c   Patnaik, Priyamvada ^d   Biswas, Pratim ^d   Clark, Robert M ^a   Rice, Eugene W ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROORGANISMS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

OPTICAL PARTICLE COUNTERS; PARTICLE DETECTION; TURBIDITY MEASUREMENT;

TURBIDIMETERS;

EID: 0031077115     PISSN: 0003150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1997.tb08182.x     Document Type: Review

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