Impact of advanced water conservation features and new copper pipe on rapid chloramine decay and microbial regrowth

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 611-621

  Nguyen, Caroline ^a   Elfland, Carolyn ^b   Edwards, Marc ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloramine; Copper; Decay; Microbial regrowth

Indexed keywords

POTABLE WATER; WATER CONSERVATION;

CHLORAMINE; CHLORAMINE DECAYS; DECAY; HIGH WATER; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL REGROWTH; POTABLE WATER SYSTEMS; TASTE AND ODOUR; WATER AGES;

COPPER PIPE;

COPPER; DRINKING WATER; TOSYLCHLORAMIDE SODIUM;

BUILDING; COPPER; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; INHIBITOR; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ODOR; PH; PHOSPHATE; REGROWTH; RESEARCH WORK; TASTE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84855312279     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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