Simultaneous removal of urea, ammonia, and carbon dioxide from industrial wastewater using a thermal hydrolyzer-separator loop

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 10037-10046

  Rahimpour, M R ^a   Mottaghi, H R ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; AMMONIA REMOVAL; BACKMIXING; DESORBERS; EQUATION OF STATE; FUGACITY CO-EFFICIENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; INLET TEMPERATURE; LIQUID PHASE; MIXED MODELS; MODELING AND SIMULATION; NONIDEAL; NONIDEALITY; PERTURBED HARD SPHERES; PLANT DATA; RATE BASED MODEL; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; REFLUX RATIO; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL; STEAM FLOW RATE; UNIQUAC EQUATIONS; UREA HYDROLYSIS; VAPOR FLOWS;

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF LIQUIDS; HYDROLYSIS; LIQUIDS; METABOLISM; REACTION RATES; REMOVAL; SEPARATORS; SIMULATORS; UREA; VAPORS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 72349096460     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900751g     Document Type: Article

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