Effect of Flow Rate and Lead/Copper Pipe Sequence on Lead Release from Service Lines

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4142-4152

  Cartier, Clément ^a   Arnold, Roger B ^b   Triantafyllidou, Simoni ^c   Prévost, Michèle ^a   Edwards, Marc ^c  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

^b Arcadis/Malcolm Pirnie   (United States)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Deposition corrosion; Drinking water; Flow rate; Galvanic corrosion; Lead (Pb); Partial lead service line replacement; Pilot study

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COPPER CORROSION; CORROSION; DEPOSITION; FLOW RATE; GALVANIC CORROSION; POTABLE WATER; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CORROSION CONTROL; GALVANIC CURRENT; LEAD LEACHING; PARTIAL REPLACEMENT; PILOT EXPERIMENT; PILOT STUDIES; PRODUCING WATER; SERVICE LINE;

RIVERS;

COPPER; LEAD; WATER;

COPPER; CORROSION; DRINKING WATER; FLOW PATTERN; LEACHING; LEAD; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOPHOSPHATE; PIPE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORROSION; FLOW RATE; GALVANIC CURRENT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBE; VELOCITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84862765970     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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