Oxygen transfer in high-speed surface aeration tank for wastewater treatment: Full-scale test and numerical modeling

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 684-691

  Huang, Weidong ^a   Wu, Chundu ^b   Xia, Weidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aeration; Computational fluid dynamics technique; Mass transfer; Mathematical models; Oxygen transfer; Reactors; Wastewater management

Indexed keywords

AERATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; OXYGEN TRANSFER; REACTORS; WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; SEWAGE TANKS; SPEED; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

WATER AERATION;

AERATION; BIOREACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; SPRAY; TESTING METHOD; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 67749088422     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000023     Document Type: Article

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