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Review
. 2019 Oct;91(10):1205-1209.
doi: 10.1002/wer.1215. Epub 2019 Sep 13.

Distributed treatment systems

Nathaniel P Sheehan  1 , Luke Plante  1 , Kyle Murray  1 , Peter Bier  1 , Erick Martinez  1 , Charles Ouellette  1 , Kimberly Quell  1
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Review

Distributed treatment systems

Nathaniel P Sheehan et al. Water Environ Res. 2019 Oct.

Abstract

This section presents a review of the scientific literature published in 2018 on topics relating to distributed treatment systems. This review is divided into the following sections: constituent removal, treatment technologies, planning and treatment management, and other topics.

Keywords: decentralized treatment; distributed treatment; point-of-use treatment.

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References

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