Selecting a sustainable disinfection technique for wastewater reuse projects

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2732-2747

  Curiel Esparza, Jorge ^a   Cuenca Ruiz, Marco A ^a   Martin Utrillas, Manuel ^a   Canto Perello, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AHP Delphi; Disinfection technologies; Expert systems; Multicriteria decision making; VIKOR; Wastewater reuse

Indexed keywords

AHP-DELPHI; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; VIKOR; WASTEWATER REUSE;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

DELPHI ANALYSIS; DISINFECTION; EXPERT SYSTEM; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; WATER USE;

EID: 84907178539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6092732     Document Type: Article

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