Sugar wastewater treatment with aerated fixed-film biological systems

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 313-321

  Hamoda, Mohamed F ^a   Al Sharekh, Hamed A ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Coll Tech Studs Pub Auth Appl ^*  (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Biofilm processes; Organic removal; Performance; Shock loads; Sugar wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOFILMS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PERFORMANCE; SUGAR INDUSTRY; WATER AERATION;

AERATED SUBMERGED FIXED FILM; HYDRAULIC RESIDENCE TIME; ORGANIC REMOVAL; SHOCK LOADS; SUGAR WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; SUGAR;

BIOFILM; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AERATION; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOFILM; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONFERENCE PAPER; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SUGAR INDUSTRY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032854267     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(99)00400-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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