Feasibility of methanolic waste treatment in USAB reactors

Water Research

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2559-2568

  Bhatti, Zafar Iqbal ^a   Furukawa, Kenji ^a   Fujita, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feasibility; HRT; Methanogens; Methanolic waste treatment; pH; UASB reactor

Indexed keywords

METHANE; METHANOL; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DEGRADATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

GADUS MORHUA;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; FATTY ACIDS; METHANE; METHANOGENS; METHANOL; PH;

FEASIBILITY; METHANOLIC WASTE TREATMENT; UPFLOW ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKET REACTOR; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

WASTE TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC PROCESSES; SLUDGE; WASTE WATER;

EID: 0030274074     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(96)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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