Treatment of household grey water with a UF membrane filtration system

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 5, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 275-282

  Li, Fangyue ^a   Gulyas, Holger ^a   Wichmann, Knut ^a   Otterpohl, Ralf ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological sanitation; Grey water; Trace organics; Ultrafiltration membrane; Wastewater reuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954205882     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2009.550     Document Type: Article

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