Arsenic occurrence in Europe: emphasis in Greece and description of the applied full-scale treatment plants

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2100-2107

  Katsoyiannis, Ioannis A ^a   Mitrakas, Manasis ^a   Zouboulis, Anastasios I ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Europe; Greece; Removal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928208016     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2014.933630     Document Type: Article

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