Formation of free cyanide and cyanogen chloride from chloramination of publicly owned treatment works secondary effluent: Laboratory study with model compounds

Water Environment Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-120

  Zheng, Anping ^a   Dzombak, David A ^b,d   Luthy, Richard G ^c  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloramination; Cyanide formation; Publicly owned treatment works; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIA; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CYANIDES; DECHLORINATION; PUBLIC WORKS; WATER TREATMENT;

CYANOGEN CHLORIDE; PRECURSOR ORGANICS; PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW); SECONDARY EFFLUENTS;

EFFLUENTS;

AMMONIA; BENZENE; CATECHIN; CYANIDE; HUMIC ACID; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SERINE; TOSYLCHLORAMIDE SODIUM; CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; CYANOGEN CHLORIDE;

CYANIDE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHLORINATION; DECHLORINATION; EFFLUENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIA; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CYANIDES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 3242798318     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143004X141636     Document Type: Article

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