Saline sewage treatment using a submerged anaerobic membrane reactor (SAMBR): Effects of activated carbon addition and biogas-sparging time

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 933-942

  Vyrides, I ^a   Stuckey, D C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaerobic degradation; Biofilm; Biogas sparging time; Membrane; Powder activated carbon; Saline sewage wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; BIOFILMS; BIOGAS; BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC CARBON; SEWAGE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

% REDUCTIONS; ANAEROBIC DEGRADATION; ANAEROBIC MEMBRANE; BIOGAS-SPARGING TIME; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MEMBRANE REACTOR; POWDER ACTIVATED CARBON; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; SALINE SEWAGE WASTEWATER;

MEMBRANES;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOFILM; BIOGAS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SALINITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SUBMERGED BODY;

EID: 60549115576     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.11.054     Document Type: Article

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