Wastewater treatment performance of a vermifilter enhancement by a converter slag-coal cinder filter

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 489-494

  Wang, Su ^a,b   Yang, Jian ^a   Lou, Shan Jie ^a  

^a College of Environmental Science and Engineering ^*  (China)

^b Shanghai Qingpu Water Affairs Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Converter slag; Domestic wastewater; Molecular weight distribution; Phosphorous removal; Rural community; Vermifilter

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA NITROGEN; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONVERTER SLAGS; DOMESTIC WASTE WATER TREATMENT; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; HYDRAULIC LOADING RATES; INSOLUBLE ORGANIC MATTER; OPTIMAL DESIGN PARAMETERS; PHOSPHOROUS REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; REMOVAL RATE; RURAL COMMUNITY; SOLUBLE MATERIALS; SUSPENDED SOLIDS;

COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; SLAGS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

METAL RECOVERY;

AMMONIA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOFILTRATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ORGANIC MATTER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RURAL POPULATION; SLAG; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 77149178415     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.11.018     Document Type: Article

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