Simulated acid azo dye wastewater treatment using suspended growth configured sequencing batch reactor (SBR) under anoxic-aerobic-anoxic microenvironment

Applied Ecology and Environmental Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-34

  Mohan, S Venkata ^a   Rao, N Chandrasekhara ^a   Sarma, P N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Oxygen consumption rate; Periodic discontinuous process; Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR); Simulated acid azo dye wastewater; Suspended growth configuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350399644     PISSN: 15891623     EISSN: 17850037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15666/aeer/0701_025034     Document Type: Article

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