Strategies to improve the efficiency of tertiary nitrifying trickling filters

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 477-485

  Wik, T ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biofilm reactor; Decay; Dynamics; Modeling; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOFILMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; POROSITY; SUBSTRATES; VOLUME FRACTION;

BIOFILM REACTOR; MULTISPECIES DYNAMIC BIOFILM MODEL; NITRIFIED WASTEWATER; NITRIFYING TRICKLING FILTER;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; BIOFILTER; CONFERENCE PAPER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITRIFICATION; SIMULATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033913359     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2000.0482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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