Quantification of the shear stresses in a microbial granular sludge reactor

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4643-4651

  Ren, Ting Ting ^a,b,d   Mu, Yang ^a,c   Liu, Li ^a   Li, Xiao Yan ^d   Yu, Han Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Energy dissipation; Granule; Hydrodynamic; Model; Sequencing batch reactor (SBR); Shear stress

Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTORS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; GRANULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHASE INTERFACES; SHEAR FLOW; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; GAS BUBBLE; GRANULAR SLUDGE; GRANULAR SLUDGE SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; GRANULE; HYDRODYNAMIC SHEAR FORCES; MICROBIAL GRANULES; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SLUDGE REACTOR;

SHEAR STRESS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOMASS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRANULAR MEDIUM; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR STRESS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MICROORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SHEAR STRESS; SLUDGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 71749106121     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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