Removal of microorganisms from water by columns containing sand coated with ferric and aluminum hydroxides

Water Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 769-777

  Lukasik, Jerzy ^a   Cheng, Yueh Fung ^a   Lu, Fuhua ^a   Tamplin, Mark ^b   Farrah, Samuel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Inst Food A   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Aluminum hydroxide; Escherichia coli; Ferric hydroxide; Modified sand; MS 2

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COLIFORM BACTERIA; DEHALOGENATION; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDRATED ALUMINA; IRON COMPOUNDS; PH EFFECTS; SAND; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER FILTRATION;

FERRIC HYDROXIDE; SAND COATED COLUMNS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; TAP WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; COLIPHAGE; DECHLORINATION; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PH; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS 1; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN POLIOVIRUS 1; NEGIBACTERIA; POLIOVIRUS 1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0033081887     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(98)00279-6     Document Type: Article

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