Full-scale and laboratory-scale anaerobic treatment of citric acid production wastewater

Biodegradation

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 233-245

  Colleran, Emer ^a   Pender, Sean ^a   Philpott, Una ^a   O'Flaherty, Vincent ^a   Leahy, Brian ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b National Maritime College of Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Citric acid production wastewater; Methanogenesis; Sulphate reduction; Sulphide toxicity; Sulphidogenesis; Thermophilic digestion

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; METHANOGENS; MOLASSES; REDUCTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TOXICITY;

CITRIC ACID; METHANOGENESIS; SULFIDOGENESIS; THERMOPHILIC DIGESTION;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CITRIC ACID; METHANE; OXYGEN; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFATE;

ANAEROBIC PROCESS; CITRIC ACID; WASTEWATER;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; EFFLUENT; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; METABOLISM; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GADUS MORHUA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032455778     PISSN: 09239820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008389722892     Document Type: Article

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