Floc destruction and its impact on dewatering properties in the process of using flat-sheet membrane for simultaneous thickening and digestion of waste activated sludge

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1937-1942

  Wang, Xinhua ^a   Wu, Zhichao ^a   Wang, Zhiwei ^a   Yin, Xing ^a   Du, Xingzhi ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biopolymer; Cation; Destruction mechanisms; Dewatering; Digestion

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOACTIVITY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; DEWATERING; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; OXYGEN; POLYMERS; POLYSACCHARIDES; POSITIVE IONS; PROTEINS; TURPENTINE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGES; CAPILLARY SUCTION TIMES; CATION; DESTRUCTION MECHANISMS; DEWATERING PROPERTIES; DIGESTION; DIVALENT CATIONS; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; IN PHASE; MIXED LIQUOR SUSPENDED SOLIDS; MONOVALENT CATIONS; TWO PHASES;

SLUDGE DIGESTION;

BIOPOLYMER; CATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DIVALENT CATION; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CATION; DEWATERING; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEWATERING; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; SUPERNATANT; WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BIOPOLYMERS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SEWAGE; WATER;

EID: 57449097542     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.10.026     Document Type: Article

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