Ultraviolet Disinfection: Similitude in Taylor-Couette and Channel Flow

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 5015-5020

  Forney, L J ^a   Goodridge, C F ^b   Pierson, J A ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDRODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

INACTIVATION;

CHANNEL FLOW;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPOSURE; FLOW RATE; LAMINAR FLOW; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; RADIATION DOSE; REACTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; THICKNESS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0242459859     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0303236     Document Type: Article

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