GAC contactor design for NOM removal: Implications of EBCT and blending

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-165

  Dvorak, Bruce I ^a   Maher, Mary Kay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPTY-BED CONTACT TIME (EBCT); GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER;

ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; GRANULAR MATERIALS; POTABLE WATER;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DRINKING WATER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0033081210     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(1999)125:2(161)     Document Type: Article

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