Alternate cycles process for municipal WWTPs upgrading: Ready for widespread application?

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4387-4393

  Battistoni, Paolo ^a   Fatone, Francesco ^b   Cola, Emanuela ^a   Pavan, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOCONVERSION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; MODERNIZATION; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; PILOT PLANTS; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ALTERNATE CYCLES; AUTOMATIC CONTROL SYSTEM (ACS); EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FULL SCALE; LOADING CONDITIONS; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE; NITROGEN LOADINGS; PLANT STUDY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT (WWT) PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 47749084677     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie070109g     Document Type: Article

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