Water Supply Technologies for Arsenic Mitigation

Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater: Mechanism, Analysis, and Remediation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 329-365

  Ahmed, M Feroze ^a  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic mitigation water supply technologies; Bangladesh Tetrahedron Technology; BUET activated alumina arsenic removal unit (ARU)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952707358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470371046.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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