Integral water treatment plant modeling: Improvements for particle processes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6337-6342

  Lawler, Desmond F ^a   Nason, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; FLOCCULATION; HYDROLYSIS; IRON; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTATION;

INTEGRAL WATER TREATMENT; NEUTRALIZATION; PARTICLE BEHAVIOR; PLANT MODELING;

WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; IRON; MAGNESIUM; SURFACE WATER;

FLOCCULATION; LIQUID-SOLID SEPARATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEDIMENTATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; EFFLUENT; FLOCCULATION; HYDROLYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION; SEDIMENTATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; FLOCCULATION; HYDROLYSIS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

MELIA;

EID: 24644473538     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050089e     Document Type: Article

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