Monitoring and evaluation of removal of pathogens at municipal wastewater treatment plants

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1589-1599

  Fu, C Y ^a   Xie, X ^a   Huang, J J ^a   Zhang, T ^a   Wu, Q Y ^a   Chen, J N ^a   Hu, H Y ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Fecal coliforms; Giardia; Somatic coliphages; Wastewater reclamation

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC-ANOXIC-OXIC PROCESS; BEIJING , CHINA; CONCENTRATION OF; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECAL COLIFORMS; GIARDIA; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAS; MEMBRANE ULTRAFILTRATION; MICROBIAL INDICATORS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; OOCYSTS; OXIDATION DITCH; PRIMARY TREATMENT; REDUCTION EFFICIENCY; REDUCTION RATIOS; RETENTION TIME; SAND FILTRATION; SECONDARY TREATMENT; SLUDGE CONCENTRATION; SOMATIC COLIPHAGES; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TERTIARY TREATMENT EFFLUENT; TOTAL COLIFORMS; UNTREATED WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FLOCCULATION; MICROFILTRATION; SEWAGE LAGOONS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; TOXICITY; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; FECAL COLIFORM; FLOCCULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PROTOZOAN; SEDIMENTATION; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHLORINATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; EFFLUENT STANDARD; FECAL COLIFORM; FLOCCULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GIARDIA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; OXIDATION KINETICS; PROCESS MONITORING; SAND; SEDIMENTATION; SLUDGE; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SAMPLING; CITY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEWAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA;

CITIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GIARDIA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77952318032     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.757     Document Type: Article

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