Sugar cane industry as a source of water pollution - Case study on the situation in Ipojuca river, Pernambuco, Brazil

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 180, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 261-269

  Gunkel, Günter ^a   Kosmol, Jan ^a   Sobral, Maria ^b   Rohn, Hendryk ^a   Montenegro, Suzana ^b   Aureliano, Joana ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c Agência Estadual de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Hídricos   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bio alcohol; Dunder; Fertigation; Ipojuca river Brazil; Stillage; Sugar cane industry; Vinasse; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); SUGAR CANE;

FERTIGATION; SUGAR CANE INDUSTRY; VINASSE;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ALCOHOL; OXYGEN; RAIN; WATER;

COASTAL ZONES; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); RIVER POLLUTION; SUGAR CANE;

AGROINDUSTRY; ALCOHOL; BIOFUEL; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER BASIN; RIVER POLLUTION; SELF PURIFICATION; SEWAGE; SUGAR CANE; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE STUDY; CATCHMENT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION; FERTIGATION; FLOW RATE; HEATING; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MONITORING; PRECIPITATION; PROCESSING; RIVER; SEWAGE; SUGAR INDUSTRY; SUGARCANE; TECHNOLOGY; TILLAGE; TURBIDITY; WASTE WATER; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

DISCHARGE; RIVERS; SUGAR CANE; WATER POLLUTION;

BRAZIL; IPOJUCA RIVER; PERNAMBUCO; SOUTH AMERICA;

SACCHARUM;

EID: 33846886708     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-006-9268-x     Document Type: Article

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