Climate change impacts on activated sludge wastewater treatment: A case study from Norway

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 533-541

  Plósz, Benedek Gy ^a   Liltved, Helge ^a   Ratnaweera, Harsha ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Biological nitrogen removal; Climate change; Melting pattern; Secondary clarifier; Urban surface runoff

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN REMOVAL; CLARIFICATION PROCESS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE FACTORS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; INFLUENT FLOW RATE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; OPTIMISATIONS; PROCESS MODEL; REAL-TIME AUTOMATION; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SECONDARY CLARIFIER; SEWAGE TREATMENT PROCESS; SHOCK LOADINGS; SHORT PERIODS; SNOW-MELTING; URBAN SURFACE RUNOFF; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM; WINTER OPERATIONS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BIOACTIVITY; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLARIFICATION; CLARIFIERS; COMBINED SEWERS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

NITROGEN; SNOW;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AIR TEMPERATURE; BIODEGRADATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEWAGE; SNOWMELT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVALUATION; FLOW RATE; MELTING POINT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NITRIFICATION; NORWAY; PROCESS CONTROL; SEWAGE; SEWER; SLUDGE TREATMENT; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WINTER;

CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; NORWAY; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 69749084718     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.386     Document Type: Article

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