Microbial activity in biofilter used as a pretreatment for seawater desalination

Desalination

Volumn 309, Issue , 2013, Pages 254-260

  Naidu, Gayathri ^a   Jeong, Sanghyun ^a   Vigneswaran, Saravanamuthu ^a   Rice, Scott A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Assimilable organic carbon; Biofilter; Dissolved organic carbon; Granular activated carbon; Seawater

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BIOMASS; ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; CELL COUNT; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC REMOVAL EFFICIENCY; FILTRATION VELOCITY; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; ORGANIC REMOVAL; ORGANICS; PRE-TREATMENT; PRETREATMENT PROCESS; SEAWATER DESALINATION; TRANSPARENT EXOPOLYMER PARTICLES;

ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFOULING; DESALINATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; SEAWATER; STREAM FLOW; WATER FILTRATION;

BIOFILTERS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESALINATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXOPOLYMER; FILTER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOFILTRATION; BIOFOULING; SEAWATER;

EID: 84870943341     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

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