Efficiency of bark, activated charcoal, foam and sand filters in reducing pollutants from greywater

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 223, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3657-3671

  Dalahmeh, Sahar S ^a   Pell, Mikael ^a   Vinnerås, Björn ^a,b   Hylander, Lars D ^c   Öborn, Ingrid ^a   Jönsson, Håkan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adsorption; BOD 5 reduction; Coliforms; Irrigation; Nitrate; Organic matter; Residence time

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CHARCOAL FILTERS; COLIFORMS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; FAECAL COLIFORMS; FILTER MATERIALS; GREYWATER; HYDRAULIC LOADING RATES; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY; METHYLENE BLUE; MICROBIAL INDICATORS; ORGANIC LOADING RATES; ORGANICS; POLYURETHANE FOAM; POTENTIAL RESOURCES; RESIDENCE TIME; SAND FILTER; START-UPS; STEADY STATE; THERMOTOLERANT; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS;

ADSORPTION; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; IRRIGATION; NITRATES; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

SAND;

ACTIVATED CARBON; METHYLENE BLUE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; POLYURETHAN FOAM; SURFACTANT;

ADSORPTION; BARK; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHARCOAL; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FILTER; FOAM; IRRIGATION; NITRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RESIDENCE TIME; SAND; SURFACTANT; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; BARK; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FECAL COLIFORM; FILTER; GREYWATER; HEAT TOLERANCE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NONHUMAN; SAND FILTER; STEADY STATE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84865455142     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-012-1139-z     Document Type: Article

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