Fluorescence-based monitoring of tracer and substrate distribution in an UASB reactor

Chemosphere

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1212-1220

  Lou, S J ^a   Tartakovsky, B ^a   Zeng, Y ^b   Wu, P ^b   Guiot, S R ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Multiwavelength fluorometry; Rhodamine; Substrate distribution; Tracer study; UASB reactor

Indexed keywords

MULTIWAVELENGTH FLUOROMETRY; RHODAMINE; SUBSTRATE DISTRIBUTION; UASB REACTOR; UPFLOW ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKET (UASB);

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISPERSIONS; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

RHODAMINE; TRACER; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DISPERSIONS; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FATTY ACID; FLUORESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MONITORING; SLUDGE; SUBSTRATE; TRACER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISPERSION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; SLUDGE; UPFLOW REACTOR;

BIOREACTORS; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FLUORESCENCE; METHANE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEWAGE;

EID: 33748689802     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.03.045     Document Type: Article

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