Where to dose powdered activated carbon in a wastewater treatment plant for organic micro-pollutant removal

Chemosphere

Volumn 156, Issue , 2016, Pages 88-94

  Streicher, Judith ^a   Ruhl, Aki Sebastian ^a   Gnirß, Regina ^b   Jekel, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERLINER WASSERBETRIEBE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Advanced wastewater treatment; Organic trace pollutants; Pharmaceuticals; Point source; Size exclusion chromatography

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; ANOXIC WATER; DRUG PRODUCTS; EFFICIENCY; EFFLUENTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT PROCESS; COMPARATIVE ADSORPTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MICRO-POLLUTANTS; POINT SOURCES; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; TRACE POLLUTANT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT;

ACETIC ACID; ACTIVATED CARBON; CARBAMAZEPINE; DICLOFENAC; GLUCOSE; METOPROLOL; ORGANIC CARBON; PEPTONE; UREA; CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POWDER; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ABSORPTION; ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRUG; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OXIC CONDITIONS; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE REACTOR; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBIDITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POWDER; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; CARBON; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POWDERS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84965000344     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.04.123     Document Type: Article

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