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Water treatment by fabric capillary action: New technique with ancient origins
Author(s) -
Fadel Hatem A.
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.5942/jawwa.2014.106.0163
Subject(s) - capillary action , filtration (mathematics) , chromatography , chemistry , materials science , composite material , mathematics , statistics
The ancient Egyptian wick filtration method of water treatment has been redeveloped, and a comparative study showed that the redeveloped method of transmitting the water from one channel to another through technical nonwoven fabrics by using fabric capillary action is more cost effective.