Removal of microcystin-LR from spiked water using either activated carbon or anthracite as filter material

Environmental Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 381-391

  Drogui, Patrick ^a   Daghrir, Rimeh ^a   Simard, Marie Christine ^a   Sauvageau, Christine ^b   Blais, Jean François ^a  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b Roche Ltéée   (Canada)

Author keywords

anthracite; drinking water; granular activated carbon; microcystin LR; powder activated carbon

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; ALGAE; ANTHRACITE; BACTERIA; GRANULAR MATERIALS; POTABLE WATER; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BLUE GREEN ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIAL TOXINS; DRINKING WATER SOURCES; FILTER MATERIALS; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; HUMAN HEALTH; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; MICROCYSTIN-LR; PILOT SCALE; POWDER ACTIVATED CARBON; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; PROTEIN ADSORPTION; SPIKED WATER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ANTHRACITE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; COAL; DRINKING WATER; MICROCYSTIN LR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; ANTHRACITE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; FILTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PROTEIN; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXIC ORGANISM; TOXIN; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYANOBACTERIUM; FILTER; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT;

CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84859178177     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2011.575186     Document Type: Article

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