Removal of chemical and microbiological contaminants from domestic greywater using a recycled vertical flow bioreactor (RVFB)

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-114

  Gross, Amit ^a   Kaplan, Drora ^a   Baker, Katherine ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Greywater; Indicator organisms; Opportunistic pathogens; Water reuse

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; IMPURITIES; MICROBIOLOGY; REMOVAL; WATER RESOURCES;

DOMESTIC GREYWATER; INDICATOR ORGANISMS; OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGENS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; IMPURITIES; MICROBIOLOGY; REMOVAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EFFLUENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RECYCLING; WASTEWATER; WATER RESOURCE; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34548126156     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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