Design and implementation of a continuous microwave heating system for ballast water treatment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4121-4127

  Boldor, Dorin ^a   Balasubramanian, Sundar ^a   Purohit, Shreya ^a   Rusch, Kelly A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ENERGY UTILIZATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER TREATMENT;

GROWTH STAGES; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

MICROWAVE HEATING;

WATER;

ALGAE; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MICROWAVE HEATING; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER TREATMENT;

BIVALVE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; HEATING; INHIBITION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROALGA; MICROWAVE RADIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BALLAST; LARVAL STAGE; MICROALGA; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NANNOCHLOROPSIS OCULATA; NONHUMAN; WATER MANAGEMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CRASSOSTREA; HEAT; LARVA; MICROWAVES; SHIPS; WATER PURIFICATION;

ARTEMIA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS OCULATA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 44449107166     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es7024752     Document Type: Article

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