Modelling of UV radiation field inside a photoreactor designed for wastewater disinfection Experimental validation

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 78, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 269-287

  Sellami, Mohamed Habib ^a   Hassen, Abdennaceur ^b   Sifaoui, Mohamed Salah ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b Institut National de Recherche Scientifique et Technique Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Optical properties; Photoreactor; Purification; Radiative transfer; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PURIFICATION; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; PHOTOREACTORS; RADIATION ABSORBING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; WASTEWATER DISINFECTION;

RADIATION EFFECTS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0037457092     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(02)00216-9     Document Type: Article

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