Adsorption and removal at low atrazine concentration in an MBR pilot plant

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1334-1340

  Buttiglieri, G ^a,b   Migliorisi, L ^a   Malpei, F ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Atrazine; Calorimetry; Inhibition; MBR

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION STUDIES; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ATRAZINE ADSORPTION; ATRAZINE CONCENTRATIONS; ATRAZINE REMOVAL; ATRAZINES; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; BIOMASS ACTIVITY; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; ECOTOXICITY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; INHIBITION; LOW LEVEL; MBR; MBR TECHNOLOGY; MICRO-CALORIMETRY; MICROPOLLUTANTS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; BIOCONVERSION; CALORIMETERS; CALORIMETRY; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HERBICIDES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PILOT PLANTS; POTABLE WATER; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

ATRAZINE; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; NITRATE;

ADSORPTION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ATRAZINE; BIOREACTOR; CALORIMETRY; DRINKING WATER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORESTRY PRACTICE; INHIBITION; ISOTHERM; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; MEMBRANE REACTOR; ORGANIC POLLUTION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ATRAZINE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; HERBICIDES; PILOT PROJECTS; SEWAGE; TIME FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

ADSORPTION; CALORIMETRY; DRINKING WATER; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FORESTRY; GROUND WATER; HERBICIDES; NITROGEN; REMOVAL; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 79955634495     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2011.130     Document Type: Article

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