Simultaneous oxygen and carbon variation within an RBC biofilm as function of different operating conditions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1270-1276

  Martínez Delgadillo, Sergio A ^a   Cantú Lozano, Denis ^b   Montalvo, Carlos ^b   Hernàndez, Jesús González ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA AZCAPOTZALCO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE ORIZABA   (Mexico)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATERIALES AVANZADOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); OXYGEN; WASTEWATER;

BIO-KINETIC PARAMETERS; BIOFILM DENSITIES; DIFFUSIVITIES; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; LABORATORY-SCALE; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; OPERATING CONDITIONS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTACTORS; ROTATIONAL SPEED; SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS;

BIOFILTERS;

EID: 61549135060     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie8005885     Document Type: Article

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