Assessment of chloramination control strategy based on free-ammonia concentration

Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-39

  Motzko, Skadi ^a,b,c   Fabris, Rolando ^a,b   Badalyan, Alexander ^a,d   Henderson, Ralph ^e   Chow, Christopher W K ^a,b   Vitanage, Dammika ^a,f  

^a Department of Applied Chemistry   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN WATER QUALITY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c NUREMBERG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e Water Corporation Leederville   (Australia)

^f SYDNEY WATER CORPORATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ammonia monitoring; Chloramination control; Control strategy; Disinfection

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DISINFECTION; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

CHLORAMINATED; CHLORAMINATION; CONTROL CONFIGURATION; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FEED-FORWARD; FREE AMMONIA; LABORATORY EVALUATION; NEW APPROACHES;

FEEDBACK;

AMMONIA; CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISINFECTION; LABORATORY METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77149140423     PISSN: 00037214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/aqua.2009.068     Document Type: Article

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