Performance of an oxidation ditch retrofitted with a membrane bioreactor during the start-up

Desalination

Volumn 183, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 417-424

  Tiranuntakul, M ^a   Jegatheesan, V ^a   Schneider, P A ^a   Fracchia, H L ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Townsville Water and Waste   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extracelluler polymeric substance; Nutrient removal; Oxidation ditch; Submerged flat sheet membrane

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOREACTORS; CARBOHYDRATES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MEMBRANES; NITRATES; OXIDATION; PHOSPHATES; PROTEINS; SEDIMENTATION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCE; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; OXIDATION DITCH; SUBMERGED FLAT SHEET MEMBRANE;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 27944491272     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2005.03.043     Document Type: Article

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