The use of hydrogen peroxide to remove cyanobacteria and microcystins from waste stabilization ponds and hypereutrophic systems

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 86-94

  Barrington, Dani J ^a   Reichwaldt, Elke S ^a   Ghadouani, Anas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algicide; Application; Cyanobacteria; Hydrogen peroxide; Microcystins; Waste stabilization pond

Indexed keywords

ALGICIDE; BATCH CULTURE; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOLOGICAL HEALTH; FULL-SCALE APPLICATIONS; FULL-SCALE TRIALS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROCYSTINS; RAPID METHOD; REPEATED APPLICATION; SURFACE SAMPLE; UPPER LAYER; WASTE STABILIZATION PONDS;

APPLICATIONS; BATCH CELL CULTURE; EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH RISKS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; STABILIZATION; STABILIZATION PONDS;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

CYANOBACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH RISK; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LABORATORY METHOD; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POND; RESERVOIR; TOXIC ORGANISM; TOXIN; WATER TREATMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84871967737     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.04.024     Document Type: Article

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