Performance evaluation of a simple wastewater treatment system comprised by UASB reactor, shallow polishing ponds and coarse rock filter

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1313-1319

  Von Sperling, Marcos ^a   Oliveira, Carolina Moreira ^a   Andrada, Juliana G B ^a   Godinho, Valéria M ^a   Assunção, Fernando A L ^a   Melo Junior, Wilson R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Polishing ponds; Rock filters; UASB reactors; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ORGANIC MATTER;

ALGA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTER; GREEN ALGA; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POND; ROCK; SOLID; UPFLOW REACTOR; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BIOREACTORS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUGLENIDA; FILTRATION; PHOSPHORUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUGLENIDA;

EID: 55849115995     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2008.720     Document Type: Article

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