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An overview of European water treatment practice
Author(s) -
Knoppert P.L.,
Oskam G.,
Vreedenburgh E.G.H.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1980.tb04594.x
Subject(s) - filtration (mathematics) , flocculation , settling , water treatment , activated carbon , environmental science , carbon fibers , waste management , slow sand filter , total organic carbon , organic matter , chemistry , environmental engineering , pulp and paper industry , environmental chemistry , materials science , engineering , organic chemistry , mathematics , adsorption , statistics , composite number , composite material
The philosophy behind new treatment designs in Europe is to remove total organic carbon and synthetic organic contaminants in successive treatment steps—storage, flocculation, settling, ozonation, rapid and slow sand filtration, and granular activated carbon filtration—rather than only in the GAC filters. The idea is to combine physical, chemical, and biological removal mechanisms In an integrated system to achieve optimum removal of micropollutants.