Structure of conditioned sludge flocs

Water Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2125-2134

  Chu, C P ^a   Lee, D J ^a   Peng, X F ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Floc structure; Flocculation; Freezing; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

FLOCCULATION; FRACTALS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THAWING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MASS FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; MICROTOME-SLICING; SHAPE RESEMBLING; VOLUME POROSITY;

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

CATION;

FLOCCULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLOCCULATION; FREEZING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROTOME; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; TECHNIQUE; THAWING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 1942485980     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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