Usage of inherent storage for minimisation of wastewater in multipurpose batch plants

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 3545-3554

  Gouws, Jacques F ^a,b   Majozi, Thokozani ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Batch processes; Optimisation; Storage; Wastewater minimisation

Indexed keywords

BATCH PLANTS; BATCH PROCESS; BATCH PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATIONS; FRESHWATER SOURCES; IN-PROCESS; INTERMEDIATE STORAGE; LIMITED SPACE; MULTIPURPOSE BATCH PLANTS; OPTIMISATION; PROCESSING UNITS; RETROFIT DESIGN; RETURN ON CAPITAL; REUSE OF WASTEWATER; STORAGE; STORAGE VESSEL; TIME HORIZONS;

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; IMAGE CODING; INVESTMENTS; RETROFITTING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

EFFLUENTS;

EID: 67649743427     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.04.038     Document Type: Article

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