Quantification of the inert chemical oxygen demand of raw wastewater and evaluation of soluble microbial product production in demo-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors under different operational conditions

Water Environment Research

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 608-616

  Aquino, Sergio F ^a   Gloria, Roberto M ^b   Silva, Silvana Q ^b   Chernicharo, Carlos A L ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Biodegradability test; Effluent characterization; Inert chemical oxygen demand; Molecular weight distribution; Soluble microbial products

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIODEGRADABILITY; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

BIODEGRADABILITY TESTS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUNDS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; SOLUBLE CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMANDS; SOLUBLE MICROBIAL PRODUCTS; UP-FLOW ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKET REACTORS;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

ACCUMULATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; FLOW RATE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SLUDGE BLANKET REACTOR; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; SEWAGE;

OXYGEN;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOREACTORS; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 68549090686     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143008X370386     Document Type: Article

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