Assessment of the capacity of slow sand filtration to eliminate cryptosporidium oocysts

American Water Works Association - Water Quality Technology Conference and Exposition 2006: Taking Water Quality to New Heights

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1978-1988

  Hijnen, W A M ^a   Bosklopper, Karin ^b   Schijven, J F ^c   Medema, Gertjan J ^a   Dullemont, Yoland J ^b  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b Waternet   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM OOCYSTS; ELIMINATION CAPACITY; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LITERATURE DATA; LITERATURE REVIEWS; OOCYSTS; PILOT PLANT SCALE; SLOW SAND FILTERS; SLOW SAND FILTRATION; WATER COMPANIES;

EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; PILOT PLANTS; SAND; WATER QUALITY;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 84871524300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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