Cause and effect relationship between foam formation and treated wastewater effluents in a transboundary river

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 34, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 565-573

  Ruzicka, Katerina ^a   Gabriel, Oliver ^a   Bletterie, Ulrike ^a   Winkler, Stefan ^a   Zessner, Matthias ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Foam; River basin management; Surface tension; Transboundary pollution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AUSTRIA; BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; CAUSE-AND-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; DILUTION FACTORS; FOAM FORMATION; HUNGARIANS; HUNGARY; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; LONG TERM; LOWLAND RIVERS; NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION; REGRESSION MODEL; RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT; RIVER WATER; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; SLUDGE RETENTION TIME; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TENSIDES; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS; TREATED WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER SAMPLING;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CAPILLARITY; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDIZATION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE WAVES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATERSHEDS; WETTING;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOAM; FORMATION MECHANISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; RIVER MANAGEMENT; RIVER WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

EID: 65649103869     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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