Factors affecting fluoride and natural organic matter (NOM) removal from natural waters in Tanzania by nanofiltration/reverse osmosis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 527-528, Issue , 2015, Pages 520-529

  Shen, Junjie ^a,b   Schäfer, Andrea I ^c  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NELSON MANDELA AFRICAN INSTITUTION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Tanzania)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluoride; Nanofiltration; Natural water; NOM; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IONIC STRENGTH; NANOFILTRATION; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OSMOSIS; POTABLE WATER; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER; WATER FILTRATION;

BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; DRINKING WATER SOURCES; FLUORIDE; FLUORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER REMOVALS (NOM); NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NATURAL WATERS; NOM;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

CARBON; DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; FLUOROPHOSPHATE; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; PHOSPHATE; WATER POLLUTANT;

DRINKING WATER; FILTRATION; FLUORIDE; MEMBRANE; ORGANIC MATTER; OSMOSIS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; IONIC STRENGTH; NANOFILTRATION; PH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RELIABILITY; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SALINITY; TANZANIA; TURBIDITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT; ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; OSMOSIS; PROCEDURES; WATER POLLUTANT;

TANZANIA;

FILTRATION; FLUORIDES; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; OSMOSIS; PHOSPHATES; TANZANIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84929598038     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.037     Document Type: Article

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