Greywater treatment using different designs of sand filters

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 52, Issue 28-30, 2014, Pages 5237-5242

  Abdel Shafy, H I ^a   El Khateeb, M A ^a,b   Shehata, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b JOUF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Greywater; Low cost; Reuse; Sand filter; Separation; Simple technology

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW PATTERN; SAND; SEDIMENTATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84884194725     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.813007     Document Type: Article

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