Novel test procedure to evaluate the treatability of wastewater with ozone

Water Research

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 324-335

  Schindler Wildhaber, Yael ^a,b   Mestankova, Hana ^a   Schärer, Michael ^b   Schirmer, Kristin ^a,c,d   Salhi, Elisabeth ^a   von Gunten, Urs ^a,c,d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioassays; Effluent toxicity; Micropollutant oxidation; Oxidation by products; Ozonation; Transformation products

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; OZONE; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; OZONIZATION; TESTING; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EFFLUENT TOXICITY; MATRICES EFFECT; MICROPOLLUTANT OXIDATION; MICROPOLLUTANT REMOVALS; MICROPOLLUTANTS; ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS; OXIDATION BY-PRODUCTS; TEST PROCEDURES; TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

OXIDATION;

OZONE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ABATEMENT COST; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOASSAY; EFFLUENT; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MATRIX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OXIDATION; OZONE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; STABILIZATION; TOXICITY; TRANSFORMATION; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; OXIDATION; OZONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

OZONE; TOXICITY TESTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84928350528     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.02.030     Document Type: Article

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