A comparative pilot-scale study of the performance of conventional activated sludge and membrane bioreactors under limiting operating conditions

Water Environment Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-231

  Aguilera Soriano, G ^a   Erb, M ^a   Garel, C ^a   Audic, J M ^a  

^a CIRSEE   (France)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Denitrification; Hydraulic residence time; Membrane bioreactor; Nitrification; Solids retention time

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; HYDRAULICS; NITRIFICATION; PILOT PLANTS; REACTION KINETICS;

CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED-SLUDGE (CAS); HYDRAULIC RESIDENCE TIME (HRT); MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS (MBR); SOLID RETENTION TIME (SRS);

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NITRIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; SEWAGE; WATER FLOW;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; KINETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NITROGEN; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0141447743     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143003X141006     Document Type: Article

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