An empirical model for predicting the organic concentration of anaerobic filter effluents

Water Environment Research

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 299-305

  Wilson, Francis ^a   Yu, Hanqing ^a   Tay, Joo Hwa ^a   Gu, Guowei ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anaerobic filter; Chemical oxygen demand; Domestic wastewater; Hydraulic retention time; Linear regression model; Soybean wastewater

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANAEROBIC FILTER; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ORGANIC MATTER;

ANAEROBIC PROCESS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FILTER; MODEL; WASTE WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; FILTER; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

GADUS MORHUA; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0032078452     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143098X124920     Document Type: Article

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