Toxicity screening, assessment, and reduction in an industrial wastewater treatment plant

Water Environment Research

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1170-1177

  Ince, Nilsun H ^a   Erdoǧdu, Gülnaz ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Aeration; Biodegradation; Industrial wastewater treatment; Powdered activated carbon treatment; Toxicity reduction evaluation; Volatilization; Whole effluent toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FRACTIONATION; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; TOXICITY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER AERATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON (PAC) TREATMENT; VOLATILIZATION;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ADSORPTION; AERATION; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING; VIBRIONACEAE; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 0032168863     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143098X123507     Document Type: Article

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