Impacts of structural characteristics on activated sludge floc stability

Water Research

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 3632-3645

  Wilén, Britt Marie ^a,b   Jin, Bo ^a   Lant, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Floc stability; Floc strength; Floc structure; Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH); Shear sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; FRACTALS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

SHEAR SENSITIVITY;

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; FLOC; FLUORESCENCE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; FLOCCULATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0038688992     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(03)00291-4     Document Type: Article

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