Wastewater treatment using gamma irradiation: Tétouan pilot station, Morocco

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 424-428

  Tahri, Loubna ^a,b   Elgarrouj, Driss ^b   Zantar, Said ^b   Mouhib, Mohamed ^b   Azmani, Amina ^a   Sayah, Fouad ^a  

^a Centre des Etudes Environnementales Méditerranéennes   (Morocco)

^b Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (Morocco)

Author keywords

BOD5; COD; Gamma irradiation; Microbial load; NPK.; pH; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; BACTERIAL FLORA; COD; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GAMMA SOURCE; MICROBIAL LOADS; REUSE OF WASTEWATER; URBAN WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER REUSE;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; COMPETITION; EFFLUENTS; GAMMA RAYS; IRRADIATION; OXYGEN; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

COBALT 60;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; GAMMA IRRADIATION; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOLYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING;

EID: 74649085872     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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