Virus removal in a pilot-scale 'advanced' pond system as indicated by somatic and F-RNA bacteriophages

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 107-110

  Davies Colley, R J ^a   Craggs, R J ^a   Park, J ^a   Sukias, J P S ^a   Nagels, J W ^a   Stott, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

APS; Disinfection; Phage; Solar radiation; UV radiation; Virus; WSPs

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CLIMATE CHANGE; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RADIATION EFFECTS; RNA; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIRUSES;

ADVANCED POND SYSTEMS (APS); SOMATIC BACTERIOPHAGES; VIRUS REMOVAL; WASTE STABILIZATION PONDS;

STABILIZATION PONDS;

STABILIZATION POND; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SUMMER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIRUS; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WINTER;

ALGAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RNA PHAGE;

EID: 23844499080     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2005.0440     Document Type: Article

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