Pretreatment of wastewater: Optimal coagulant selection using Partial Order Scaling Analysis (POSA)

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 190, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 51-59

  Tzfati, Eran ^a   Sein, Maya ^a   Rubinov, Angelika ^a   Raveh, Adi ^b   Bick, Amos ^a,c  

^a SHENKAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND DESIGN   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Jar test; Management modeling; Multi criteria decision; Partial order analysis; Treatment selection

Indexed keywords

BEST CHOICE; FERRIC CHLORIDE; JAR TEST; MEASURED PARAMETERS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; OPTIMAL CHEMICALS; ORGANIC MATTER REMOVAL; PARTIAL ORDER; PARTIAL ORDER ANALYSIS; PRE-TREATMENT; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SCALING ANALYSIS; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SUSPENDED MATTERS; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TREATMENT EFFICIENCY; TREATMENT SELECTION;

BATCH REACTORS; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAGULATION; OPTIMIZATION; TESTING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

ALUMINUM POTASSIUM SULFATE; FERRIC CHLORIDE;

COAGULATION; CONDUCTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; ORGANIC MATTER; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; JAR TEST; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ALUM COMPOUNDS; CHLORIDES; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FLOCCULATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 79956138287     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.02.023     Document Type: Article

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