Image analysis to estimate the settleability and concentration of activated sludge

Water Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1126-1134

  Grijspeerdt, Koen ^a   Verstraete, Willy ^a  

^a Centre for Environmental Sanitation   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Concentration measurement; Image analysis; Settleability

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; FLOCCULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SLUDGE SETTLING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ASPECT RATIO; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MORPHOLOGY;

CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; MAGNIFICATION MICROSCOPY; SETTLEABILITY; ZONE SETTLING VELOCITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE;

EID: 0030615929     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(96)00350-8     Document Type: Article

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