Nonsteady-State Modeling of Multispecies Activated-Sludge Processes

Water Environment Research

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 554-565

  Viraj De Silva, D G ^a,b   Rittmann, Bruce E ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Parsons Engineering Science Inc   (United States)

^c Parsons Engineering Science Inc ^*

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Denitrification; Multispecies model; Nitrification; Nonsteady state model; Sequencing batch reactor; Soluble microbial products

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS DECAY; HETEROTROPHS; SOLUBLE MICROBIAL PRODUCTS;

BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DENITRIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

EID: 0034272043     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143000x138139     Document Type: Article

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