Dissolved organic carbon and trihalomethane precursor removal at a UK upland water treatment works

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2014, Pages 228-239

  Gough, Rachel ^a   Holliman, Peter J ^a   Willis, Naomi ^b   Freeman, Christopher ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Welsh Water   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Dissolved organic carbon; Size exclusion chromatography; Trihalomethanes; XAD fractionation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; COAGULATION; FRACTIONATION; POTABLE WATER; REACTION KINETICS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

COAGULATION FLOCCULATION; DISSOLVED AIR FLOATATIONS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; RAPID GRAVITY FILTRATION; TRIHALOMETHANE PRECURSORS; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; WATER TREATMENT WORKS;

WATER POLLUTION;

CHLORINE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; TRIHALOMETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHLORINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COAGULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER; FLOCCULATION; FRACTIONATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BROMINATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHLORINATION; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSUMER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID GRAVITY FILTRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

COAGULATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRIHALOMETHANES; XAD FRACTIONATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; FLOCCULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; KINETICS; SEASONS; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84883773922     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.08.048     Document Type: Article

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