Effects of organic loading rate on palm oil mill effluent treatment in an up-flow anaerobic sludge fixed film bioreactor

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 337-350

  Lorestani, Ali Akbar Zinatizadeh ^a   Mohamed, Abdul Rahman ^b   Mashitah, Mat Don ^b   Abdullah, Ahmad Zuhairi ^b   Isa, Mohamed Hasnain ^b  

^a Water and Power Industry Institute for Applied and Scientific Higher Education   (Iran)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; CODin; HRT; POME; Response surface methodology (RSM); UASFF reactor

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349125803     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2006.024     Document Type: Article

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