Arsenic removal from groundwaters containing iron, ammonium, manganese and phosphate: A case study from a treatment unit in northern Greece

Desalination

Volumn 224, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 330-339

  Katsoyiannis, Ioannis A ^a   Zikoudi, Antonia ^b   Hug, Stephan J ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Deyak ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Arsenic; Biological oxidation; Manganese oxides; Nitrification; Phosphate

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; COAGULATION; DISINFECTION; GROUNDWATER; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; WATER AERATION; WATER FILTRATION;

ARSENIC REMOVAL; BIOLOGICAL FILTRATION; BIOLOGICAL OXIDATION; GROUNDWATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

ARSENIC; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COAGULATION; DISINFECTION; GROUNDWATER; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; WATER AERATION; WATER FILTRATION;

AMMONIUM; ARSENIC; FILTRATION; GROUNDWATER; MANGANESE; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PHOSPHATE; WATER TREATMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38949154529     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2007.06.014     Document Type: Article

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