Environmental performance of wastewater treatment plants for small populations

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 931-940

  Gallego, Alejandro ^a,b   Hospido, Almudena ^a,b   Moreira, Maria Teresa ^a,b   Feijoo, Gumersindo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b rio Sur   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electricity use; Eutrophication; LCA; Life cycle assessment; Terrestrial ecotoxicity; Wastewater treatment plants

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY USE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); TERRESTRIAL ECOTOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; TOXICITY;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; TOXICITY;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; LIFE CYCLE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ECOTOXICITY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; EUTROPHICATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 41649092445     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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