Maximizing trickling filter nitrification rates through biofilm control: Research review and full scale application

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 255-262

  Parker, Denny S ^a   Jacobs, Tom ^a   Bower, Erich ^a   Stowe, Dennis W ^b   Farmer, Greg ^b  

^a BROWN AND CALDWELL   (United States)

^b Cities Littleton Englewood W   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaline backwash; Biofilm control; Media effectiveness factor; Nitrification; Nitrifying trickling filter; Oxygen limited zero order kinetics

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL FILTER BEDS; EFFLUENTS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; REACTION KINETICS;

ALKALINE BACKWASH; MEDIA EFFECTIVENESS FACTOR; NITRIFYING TRICKLING FILTERS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; EFFLUENT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PREDATOR; TRICKLING FILTER; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0030810498     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(97)00332-6     Document Type: Article

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