Improvement of water treatment pilot plant with Moringa oleifera extract as flocculant agent

Environmental Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 525-534

  Beltran Heredia J ^a   Sanchez Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flocculation; Kozeny; Moringa oleifera; Natural coagulants; Slow sand filtration

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COAGULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FLOCCULATION; PILOT PLANTS; POROUS MATERIALS; SAND; SEDIMENTATION; SURFACE TREATMENT; TURBIDITY; WATER FILTRATION;

COAGULATION FLOCCULATION; HIGH-CAPACITY; KOZENY; LOW COSTS; LOW MAINTENANCE; MORINGA; MORINGA OLEIFERA; NATURAL COAGULANTS; PILOT-PLANT INSTALLATIONS; RESIDUAL TURBIDITY; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SLOW SAND FILTERS; SLOW SAND FILTRATION; TURBIDITY REMOVAL;

CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT;

MORINGA OLEIFERA EXTRACT; WATER;

COAGULATION; DICOTYLEDON; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PLANT EXTRACT; TURBIDITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; COST; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FILTER; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; NONHUMAN; SAND; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY; WATER TREATMENT;

MORINGA; MORINGA OLEIFERA;

EID: 67649413208     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330902831176     Document Type: Article

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