Enhanced copper release from pipes by alternating stagnation and flow events

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 7430-7436

  Calle, Gustavo R ^a   Vargas, Ignacio T ^a   Alsina, Marco A ^a   Pasten, Pablo A ^a   Pizarro, Gonzalo E ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUG-TYPE FLOW; WATER EXTRACTED;

BIOFILMS; MICROORGANISMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; WATER ANALYSIS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

PIPE FLOW;

COPPER; CUPRIC HYDROXIDE; CUPRITE; DRINKING WATER; MALACHITE GREEN; TAP WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOFILMS; MICROORGANISMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PIPE FLOW; WATER ANALYSIS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; CORROSION; MODELING; PIPE; STAGNATION FLOW;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CORROSION; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; EXTRACTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS; POROSITY; WATER FLOW; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; COPPER; CORROSION; HOUSING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 35948951510     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es071079b     Document Type: Article

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