Performance of a compost biofilter containing earthworms to treat cheese whey

Environmental Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 995-1002

  Merlin, Gérard ^a   Cottin, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Dairy effluent; Eisenia fetida; Trickling filter; Vermicomposting; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOFILTERS; BIOFILTRATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COMPOSTING; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; LANDFORMS; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CHEESE WHEY; COMPOST BIOFILTERS; DAIRY EFFLUENT; EISENIA FETIDA; FOLLOW UP; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; POLLUTANT REMOVAL PERFORMANCE; PRE-TREATMENT; SUPPORT MEDIA; SWITZERLAND; TREATED EFFLUENT; TRICKLING FILTER; VERMICOMPOSTING;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMAL PRODUCT; BIOFILTRATION; COMPOSTING; EARTHWORM; EFFLUENT; FOOD PROCESSING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PASTURE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; EFFLUENT; EISENIA FOETIDA; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; VERMICOMPOST; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EISENIA FETIDA;

EID: 70349302136     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330903005713     Document Type: Article

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