Continuous treatment of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste in an anaerobic two-stage membrane process with liquid recycle

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2449-2462

  Trzcinski, A P ^a   Stuckey, D C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaerobic membrane bioreactor; Municipal solid waste; Nitrification; Recalcitrants; Two stage process

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANES; RECYCLING; WASTE TREATMENT;

AEROBIC MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; ANAEROBIC MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; CONTINUOUS TREATMENTS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION; LEACHATES; MEMBRANE PROCESS; ORGANIC FRACTION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES; RECALCITRANT; RETENTION TIME; TWO-STAGE PROCESS;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; LEACHATE; MEMBRANE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RETENTION; WASTE TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC REACTOR; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEACHING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 65449176741     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.03.030     Document Type: Article

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