Development of a tri-parameter online monitoring system for UV disinfection reactors

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 222, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-107

  Qiang, Zhimin ^a   Li, Mengkai ^a   Bolton, James R ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lamp output; Micro fluorescent silica detector; Online monitoring; Percent UV transmittance; Sleeve fouling; UV disinfection reactor

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; DISINFECTION EFFICIENCY; MICRO-FLUORESCENT SILICA DETECTORS; ON-LINE MONITORING SYSTEM; ONLINE MONITORING; PERCENT UV; UV DISINFECTION; UV-VIS SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

DETECTORS; FLUORESCENCE; MONITORING; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; QUARTZ;

DISINFECTION;

EID: 84875075497     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.02.046     Document Type: Article

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