Appraisal of chlorine contact tank modelling practices

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 5834-5847

  Rauen, William B ^a   Angeloudis, Athanasios ^b   Falconer, Roger A ^b  

^a UCL   (Brazil)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorine contact tank; Computational fluid dynamics; Disinfection by products; Mathematical modelling; Physical experimentation; Water disinfection

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CHLORINATION; CHLORINE; COMPUTATION THEORY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISINFECTION; HYDRAULIC TOOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CONTACT TANKS; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; DISINFECTION BY PRODUCT FORMATIONS; DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTATIONS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION CURVES; WATER DISINFECTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CHLORINE;

CALIBRATION; CHLORINE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISINFECTION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION;

CHLORINATION; CHLORINE CONTACT TANK; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLUTE; TANK;

EID: 84867141344     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.08.013     Document Type: Review

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