Fundamental dewatering properties of wastewater treatment sludges from filtration and sedimentation testing

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5283-5290

  D Stickland, Anthony ^a   Burgess, Casey ^a   Dixon, David R ^a   Harbour, Peter J ^b   Scales, Peter J ^a   Studer, Lindsay J ^a   Usher, Shane P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compressional rheology; Filtration; Sedimentation; Wastewater slurry

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEWATERING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; GELATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CHARACTERISATION; COMPRESSIBLE MATERIALS; COMPRESSIONAL RHEOLOGY; DEWATERING DEVICES; DEWATERING PROPERTIES; FILTRATION; GEL-POINT; H IGH CONCENTRATIONS; HIGH SOLIDS; MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; MODERATE PRESSURES; NETWORK STRENGTH; OPTIMISATION; SOLIDS CONCENTRATIONS; TEST RESULTS; WASTEWATER SLUDGES; WASTEWATER SLURRY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SLUDGE;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 53149100814     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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