Beneficial combination of wet oxidation, membrane separation and biodegradation processes for treatment of polymer processing wastewaters

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 418-422

  Mantzavinos, Dionissios ^a   Hellenbrand, Rolf ^a   Livingston, Andrew G ^a   Metcalfe, Ian S ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological oxidation; Nanofiltration; Polyethylene glycol wastewater; Process integration; Wet oxidation

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL FILTER BEDS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULES; NANOFILTRATION; OXIDATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES;

BIOLOGICAL POST TREATMENT; CHEMICAL OXIDATIVE PRETREATMENT; CONTINUOUS AEROBIC BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; MEMBRANE SEPARATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WET OXIDATION;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

MACROGOL; POLYMER;

BIODEGRADATION; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION; POLYMER; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; NANOFILTRATION; OXIDATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0034174303     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450780219     Document Type: Article

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