Long-term experience with biological pretreatment of rendering plant effluent

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-44

  Nowak, O ^a   Wandl, G ^a   Svardal, K ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Activated sludge process; Biological pretreatment; Full scale experience; Industrial wastewater; Nitrification inhibition; Nitrification kinetics; Nitrite; Phosphorus deficiency; Rendering plant effluent

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL PRETREATMENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER; NITRIFICATION INHIBITION; NITRITE; PHOSPHORUS DEFICIENCY; RENDERING PLANT EFFLUENT;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

PHOSPHORUS;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; FOOD INDUSTRY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032831679     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(99)00361-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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