Bacterial treatment effectiveness of point-of-use ceramic water filters

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3559-3565

  Bielefeldt, Angela R ^a   Kowalski, Kate ^a   Summers, R Scott ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramic water filter; Disinfection; E. coli; Silver inactivation

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; DISINFECTION; EFFICIENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SILVER; SILVER METALLURGY; SOLS; WATER FILTRATION; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION; CONTAMINATED WATER; DISINFECTION EFFICIENCY; E. COLI; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SILVER CONCENTRATION; TREATMENT EFFICIENCY; WATER FILTERS;

EFFLUENTS;

SILVER;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EFFLUENT; FILTER; LABORATORY METHOD; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CERAMIC WATER FILTER; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTER; NICARAGUA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NICARAGUA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 67649984490     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.04.047     Document Type: Article

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