Characterisation of trickling filter effluent by particle size distribution and high performance size exclusion chromatography

Water Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1415-1424

  Marquet, R ^a,b   Mietton Peuchot, M ^b   Wheatley, A D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉNIE CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

High performance size exclusion chromatography (HPSEC); Particle size distribution (PSD); Trickling filter

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; TRICKLING FILTER; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL REACTION; DIFFUSION; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROFILTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRICKLING FILTER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROFILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRICKLING FILTRATION; WATER FILTRATION;

CROSSFLOW MICROFILTRATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRICKLING FILTER EFFLUENT;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0032590380     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(98)00337-6     Document Type: Article

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