Assessing struvite precipitation in a pilot-scale fluidized bed crystallizer

Environmental Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1157-1167

  Iqbal, M ^a   Bhuiyan, H ^a   Mavinic, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Fluidized bed reactor; Solubility; Struvite; Supersaturation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CALCIUM CARBIDE; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED FURNACES; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGANDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MOLAR RATIO; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RECOVERY; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SOLUBILITY; SUPERSATURATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACETATE CONCENTRATIONS; BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT; CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELING; FLUIDIZED BED REACTORS; FLUIDIZED-BED CRYSTALLIZER; STRUVITES; THERMODYNAMIC SOLUBILITY; UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

ACETIC ACID; AMMONIA; CALCIUM; CARBONIC ACID; LIGAND; MAGNESIUM; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHATE; STRUVITE;

FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; PH; RECOVERY; SLUDGE DIGESTION; SUPERSATURATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CRYSTALLIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOLUBILITY; STRUVITE; SUPERSATURATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRECIPITATION; SOLID; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 52949130634     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330802075452     Document Type: Article

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