Effects of chromium (VI) addition on the activated sludge process

Water Research

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2140-2148

  Stasinakis, Athanasios S ^a   Thomaidis, Nikolaos S ^a   Mamais, Daniel ^b   Papanikolaou, Evangelia C ^a   Tsakon, Angeliki ^a   Lekkas, Themistokles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

COD removal; Nitrification; Sludge settling; Toxicity; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CHROMIUM; MICROORGANISMS; NITRIFICATION; REDUCTION;

ROTIFERS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

CHROMIUM;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CHROMIUM; NITRIFICATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EFFLUENT; NITRIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; ROTIFERA; SLUDGE SETTLING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0037403163     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(02)00623-1     Document Type: Article

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