Crumb rubber filtration: A potential technology for ballast water treatment

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 410-423

  Tang, Zhijian ^a   Butkus, Michael A ^b   Xie, Yuefeng F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballast water; Crumb rubber; Filtration; Invasive species; Phytoplankton; Scrap tires; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); GRANULAR MATERIALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT;

BALLAST WATER; CRUMB RUBBER FILTRATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHYTOPLANKTON; SCRAP TIRES; ZOOPLANKTON;

WATER FILTRATION;

RUBBER; SEA WATER;

BALLAST WATER; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RUBBER; TURBIDITY; WATER TREATMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; FILTER; FILTRATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURBIDITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TREATMENT; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SHIP; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; FILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYTOPLANKTON; RUBBER; SEAWATER; SHIPS; WATER PURIFICATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 33745149723     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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