Manganese removal during bench-scale biofiltration

Water Research

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 4733-4742

  Burger, Mark S ^a   Mercer, Stephen S ^a   Shupe, Gordon D ^a   Gagnon, Graham A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bench scale; Biofiltration; Biological treatment; Filtration; Leptothrix; Manganese

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); POTABLE WATER; WATER FILTRATION;

BENCH SCALE; BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; BIOFILTRATIONS; BIOLOGICAL FILTERS; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; FILTRATION COLUMNS; LEPTOTHRIX; MANGANESE OXIDIZING BACTERIA; OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES;

BIOFILTRATION;

DRINKING WATER; MANGANESE;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOFILTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MANGANESE; OXIDATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BIOFILTER; BIOFILTRATION; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTRATION; INOCULATION; LEPTOTHRIX; LEPTOTHRIX DISCOPHORA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENSION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT;

LEPTOTHRIX; LEPTOTHRIX DISCOPHORA;

EID: 55249089410     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.08.024     Document Type: Article

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