Removal of emerging contaminants from a primary effluent of municipal wastewater by means of sequential biological degradation-solar photocatalytic oxidation processes

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 290, Issue , 2016, Pages 12-20

  Gimeno, O ^a   Garcia Araya J F ^a   Beltran F J ^a   Rivas, F J ^a   Espejo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Domestic wastewater; Ozonation; Pharmaceuticals compounds; Solar photocatalysis; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CATALYSIS; DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; OXIDATION; OXIDATION RESISTANCE; OZONE; OZONIZATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; ROOM AND PILLAR MINING; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES; AEROBIC BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL DEGRADATION; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC OZONATION; SOLAR PHOTOCATALYSIS;

OZONE WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84955141153     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.01.022     Document Type: Article

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