Bioaerosol emission rate and plume characteristics during land application of liquid class B biosolids

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1584-1590

  Tanner, Benjamin D ^a   Brooks, John P ^a   Haas, Charles N ^b   Gerba, Charles P ^a   Pepper, Ian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DEMODULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUXES; GROUNDWATER; MICROORGANISMS; SPRAY GUNS;

AEROSOLIZATION; BIOAEROSOL EMISSIONS; BIOSOLIDS; LAND APPLICATION;

AEROSOLS;

GROUND WATER;

AEROSOL FORMATION; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BIOSOLID; COLIFORM BACTERIUM;

AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLIPHAGE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMIDITY; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; PLUME; SLUDGE; WIND;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; COLIPHAGES; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WIND;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 15244347901     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0404466     Document Type: Article

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