Integrating micro-pollutant removal by powdered activated carbon into deep bed filtration

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Ruhl, Aki S ^a   Altmann, Johannes ^a   Zietzschmann, Frederik ^a   Meinel, Felix ^a   Sperlich, Alexander ^b   Jekel, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERLINER WASSERBETRIEBE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Advanced waste water treatment; Organicmicro pollutants; Powdered activated carbon; Rapid filtration; Trace organic pollutants

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POTABLE WATER; WASTE INCINERATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION; WATER POLLUTION;

COMPARATIVE ADSORPTION; CONTINUOUS FILTRATION; DEEP BED FILTRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER SOURCES; FIXED-BED ADSORPTION; ORGANICMICRO-POLLUTANTS; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; BENZOTRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; BEZAFIBRATE; CARBAMAZEPINE; DICLOFENAC; DRINKING WATER; ORGANIC MATTER; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; PUMICE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER; FILTRATION; GRAVIMETRY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEEP BED FILTRATION; FILTER; FILTRATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON FILTER; GRAVIMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION CONTROL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; VOLATILIZATION; WATER TREATMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84897527807     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-1877-1     Document Type: Article

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