Assessment of tap water resources quality and its potential of scale formation and corrosivity in Tafila Province, South Jordan

Desalination

Volumn 206, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 322-332

  Al Rawajfeh, Aiman E ^a,b   Al Shamaileh, Ehab M ^b  

^a TAFILA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

CaCO3; CCPP; Coliform; Corrosion; LSI; RSI; Scale formation; Tafila City; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORROSION; EVAPORATION; HEATING; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SCALE (DEPOSITS); WATER RESOURCES;

CALCIUM CARBONATE PRECIPITATION POTENTIAL; LANGELIER SATURATION INDEX; RYZNAR STABILITY INDEX; TAP WATER RESOURCES;

WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORROSION; EVAPORATION; HEATING; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SCALE (DEPOSITS); WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CORROSION; HEATING; SATURATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

ASIA; AT TAFILAH; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33846688112     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2006.01.039     Document Type: Article

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