Wood chips and wheat straw as alternative biofilter media for denitrification reactors treating aquaculture and other wastewaters with high nitrate concentrations

Aquacultural Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 222-233

  Saliling, Willie Jones B ^b   Westerman, Philip W ^a   Losordo, Thomas M ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Biofilter; Denitrification; Media degradation; Wheat straw; Wood chips

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; DENITRIFICATION; FLOW RATE; NITRATES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COMPARABLE DENITRIFICATION RATES; KALDNES PLASTIC MEDIA; WHEAT STRAW; WOOD CHIPS;

BIOFILTERS;

ALKALINITY; AMMONIA; AQUACULTURE EFFLUENT; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; NITRATE; NITRITE; STRAW; WASTEWATER; WOOD;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 35948942702     PISSN: 01448609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaeng.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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