Effectiveness of sand media filters for removing turbidity and recovering dissolved oxygen from a reclaimed effluent used for micro-irrigation

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-33

  Elbana, M ^a   Ramirez de Cartagena F ^a   Puig Bargues J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Backwashing; Clogging; Drip irrigation; Filter ripening; Filtration; Removal efficiency

Indexed keywords

BACK WASHING; CLOGGING; DRIP IRRIGATION; FILTER RIPENING; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES;

EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; IRRIGATION; RECLAMATION; SAND; TURBIDITY;

FILTRATION;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DRIP IRRIGATION; EFFLUENT; FILTER; FILTRATION; IRRIGATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION EFFECT; TURBIDITY;

EID: 84862762570     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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