Removal of waterborne particles by electrofiltration: Pilot-scale testing

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1795-1803

  Li, Ying ^a   Ehrhard, Ray ^a   Biswas, Pratim ^a   Kulkarni, Pramod ^b   Carns, Keith ^c   Patterson, Craig ^d   Krishnan, Radha ^e   Sinha, Rajib ^e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c Global Energy Partners   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Collection efficiency; Drinking water; Electrofiltration; Pathogens; Trajectory analysis; Water treatment; Waterborne particles

Indexed keywords

COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; DRINKING WATER; DRINKING WATER PLANTS; EFFECTIVE RANGE; ELECTRODE VELOCITY; ELECTRODE VOLTAGE; ELECTROFILTRATION; ENERGY COST; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FILTRATION PERFORMANCE; FULL-SCALE APPLICATIONS; MIGRATION VELOCITY; PARTICLE REMOVAL; PILOT SCALE; PILOT-SCALE STUDY; PILOT-SCALE TESTING; SAND FILTER; SIZE RANGES; STAINLESS STEEL MESH; THEORETICAL TRAJECTORY; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY APPROACH;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; POTABLE WATER; STAINLESS STEEL; TRAJECTORIES; TURBIDITY; VELOCITY; WATER RECYCLING;

WATER ANALYSIS;

STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY COST; FILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY; VELOCITY; WATER TREATMENT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 72849117076     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2009.0238     Document Type: Article

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