Effluent discharge into tidal waters: Optimal or economic strategy?

Environmetrics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 601-624

  Purnama, Anton ^a,b   Kay, Anthony ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Ebb staged; Effluent; Estuary; Far field concentration; Holding tank; Pollution minimisation; Tidal flow; Variable discharge

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENT; ESTUARY; POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0032871967     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199909/10)10:5<601::AID-ENV375>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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