Treatment of storm water containing low levels of PCBs using natural media filtration

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 799-808

  Jaradat, Aiman Q ^a   Fowler, Kathleen ^b   Grimberg, Stefan J ^c   Holsen, Thomas M ^c   Ghosh, Rajat S ^d  

^a AL HUSSEIN BIN TALAL UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Clarkson University   (United States)

^d ALCOA TECHNICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Colloid transport; Filtration; Stormwater management

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED CONGENERS; COLLOID TRANSPORT; COLUMN EFFLUENTS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONTACT TIME; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORTS; CONTAMINATED WASTEWATERS; FILTER MEDIAS; GRANULAR-ACTIVATED CARBONS; HYDRAULIC LOADINGS; LEAF COMPOSTS; LOW LEVELS; MODEL RESULTS; NATURAL MEDIAS; STORM WATERS; STORMWATER MANAGEMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; ADSORPTION; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; COMPOSTING; DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENTS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL; STORM SEWERS; WASTEWATER; WATER FILTRATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; STORM WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; COLLOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENT; EXPERIMENT; FILTRATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NATURAL MEDIA FILTRATION; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANT LEAF; PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT MEDIUM; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

TETRA;

EID: 63449114617     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2008.0202     Document Type: Article

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