Full-scale Applications of Membrane Filtration in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 479-486

  Holba, Marek ^a,b   Plotěný, Karel ^a   Dvořák, Lukáš ^c   Gómez, Marcel ^c   Růžičková, Iveta ^c  

^a ASIO Ltd ^*  (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Hygienization; Membrane bioreactor (MBR); Pathogen; Pollution; Water reclamation

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84860762772     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201000398     Document Type: Article

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