Modelling of biofilters for ammonium reduction in combined sewer overflow

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 825-831

  Henrichs, M ^a   Welker, A ^b   Uhl, M ^a  

^a MÜNSTER UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Biofilters; CSO; Models; Reactive transport simulation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS; CSO; DEGRADATION PROCESS; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; FILTER MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MULTICOMPONENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPERATING CONDITION; OUTFLOW RATE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT SIMULATION; SIMULATED DATA; SIMULATION STUDIES; SINGLE-EVENTS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOFILTERS; BIOFILTRATION; CALIBRATION; COMBINED SEWERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTS;

SIMULATORS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE;

AMMONIUM; BIOFILTRATION; CALIBRATION; DETECTION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REDUCTION; SEWER NETWORK;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; BIOFILTRATION; CALIBRATION; DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; SEWER OUTFALL; SIMULATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW; WATER TREATMENT;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTRATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 69749112481     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.397     Document Type: Article

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