Comparison of methods for estimating carbonaceous bod parameters

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 915-926

  Uludag Demirer, S ^a   Demirer, G N ^b   Bowers, A R ^c  

^a Anadoiu University   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BOD kinetics; Carbonaceous BOD; Monte Carlo simulation; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM ERRORS;

CARBONACEOUS BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMANDS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COMPARISON OF METHODS; CURVE PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; NONLINEAR REGRESSION TECHNIQUE; RELIABLE METHODS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CARBON; OXYGEN;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ESTIMATION METHOD;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034821946     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593332208618225     Document Type: Article

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