Mulch tower treatment system Part I: Overall performance in greywater treatment

Desalination

Volumn 242, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 38-56

  Zuma, Bongumusa M ^a   Tandlich, Roman ^a   Whittington Jones, Kevin J ^a   Burgess, Jo E ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Greywater; Mulch tower; On site treatment

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; CHEMICAL-OXYGEN DEMANDS; COARSE GRAVELS; COLIFORM CONCENTRATIONS; GREYWATER; GREYWATER TREATMENTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MULCH TOWER; ON-SITE TREATMENT; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; RESIDENCE TIME; SCALE-UP; SITE APPLICATIONS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TREATMENT SYSTEMS;

ALKALINITY; BUILDINGS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; OXYGEN; RANGE FINDING; REMOVAL; TELLURIC PROSPECTING; TOWERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

WATER RECYCLING;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ESTIMATION METHOD; FECAL COLIFORM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MULCH; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT;

EID: 64649091129     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.03.030     Document Type: Article

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