Lab-testing, predicting, and modeling multi-stage activated carbon adsorption of organic micro-pollutants from treated wastewater

Water Research

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 52-60

  Zietzschmann, F ^a   Altmann, J ^a   Hannemann, C ^a   Jekel, M ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Effluent organic matter; Organic micro pollutant; Powdered activated carbon; Reuse; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; ADSORPTION; CARBON; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLLUTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON ADSORPTION; EFFLUENT ORGANIC MATTER; EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATION; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; ORGANIC MICRO-POLLUTANTS; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; REUSE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENTS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; CHARCOAL; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; EFFLUENT; LABORATORY METHOD; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PREDICTION; RECYCLING; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EFFLUENT; EQUIVALENT BACKGROUND COMPOUND MODEL; LABORATORY TEST; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE WATER;

CHARCOAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84936748925     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.06.017     Document Type: Article

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