Quantitative and qualitative greywater characterization in Greek households and investigation of their treatment using physicochemical methods

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 454-455, Issue , 2013, Pages 426-432

  Antonopoulou, Georgia ^a   Kirkou, Amalia ^a   Stasinakis, Athanasios S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Greywater; Management; Physicochemical methods; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; GREECE; GREYWATER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL METHODS; QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC; TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; CLEANING; COAGULATION; EXPERIMENTS; MANAGEMENT;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALUMINUM SULFATE; FERROUS CHLORIDE;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COAGULATION; DOMESTIC WASTE; FILTRATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GREYWATER; HOUSEHOLD; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAND FILTRATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ADSORPTION; ALUM COMPOUNDS; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; CHARCOAL; CITIES; FILTRATION; GREECE; IRON COMPOUNDS; PARTICULATE MATTER; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

GREECE;

EID: 84876841538     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.045     Document Type: Article

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