Adsorption of selected pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting substances by GAC at low concentration levels

2005 Water Quality Technology Conference Proceedings, WQTC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Yu, Zirui ^a   Peldszus, Sigrid ^a   Anderson, William B ^a   Huck, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION BY ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; CARBAMAZEPINE; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATION; EQUILIBRIUM DATA; FIELD STUDIES; FREUNDLICH; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; IN-CONTROL; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; ISOTHERM DATA; LANGMUIRS; LOW CONCENTRATION LEVELS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; LOW LEVEL; NAPROXENS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION METHOD; NONYLPHENOLS; ONTARIO; TARGET COMPOUND; ULTRA-PURE WATER; WATER FACILITY;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; ADSORPTION; AMIDES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHENOLS; REACTION KINETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ISOTHERMS;

EID: 84874319940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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