Full-scale assessment of waste filter backwash recycle

Journal / American Water Works Association

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Tobiason, John E ^a   Edzwald, James K ^a   Levesque, Benjamin R ^b   Kaminski, Gary K ^c   Dunn, Howard J ^c   Galant, Peter B ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b Camp Dresser and McKee Inc (CDM)   (United States)

^c Aquarion Water Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW CONTROL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY; WATER FILTRATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RECYCLING;

FILTER BACKWASH WATER (FBW);

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0043269416     PISSN: 0003150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2003.tb10410.x     Document Type: Article

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