Inactivation of Ascaris suum and poliovirus in biosolids under thermophilic anaerobic digestion conditions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5804-5809

  Aitken, Michael D ^a   Sobsey, Mark D ^a   Blauth, Kimberly E ^a   Shehee, Mina ^a,b   Crunk, Phillip L ^a,c   Walters, Glenn W ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

^c Limno Tech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; PATHOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS; SOLIDS; VIRUSES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ASCARIS SUUM; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER SLUDGE; POLIOVIRUS; THERMOPHILIC ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

SLUDGE DIGESTION;

ANAEROBIC PROCESS; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; BATCH REACTOR; BIOSOLID; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SLUDGE DIGESTION; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ASCARIS SUUM; HEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLIOVIRUS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEWAGE; TIME FACTORS;

ARRHENIUS; ASCARIS; ASCARIS SUUM; POLIOVIRUS; VERMES;

EID: 23244439024     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048004h     Document Type: Article

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