Balancing yield, kinetics and cost for three external carbon sources used for suspended growth post-denitrification

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2485-2491

  Mokhayeri, Y ^a   Riffat, R ^a   Murthy, S ^b   Bailey, W ^b   Takacs, I ^c   Bott, C ^d  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b DC Water and Sewer Authority   (United States)

^c EnviroSim Europe   (France)

^d VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetate; Denitrification; Ethanol; Methanol; Sequencing batch reactor; Yield

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ETHANOL; GROWTH KINETICS; METHANOL; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACETATE; CARBON SOURCE; CHESAPEAKE BAY; DENITRIFICATION RATE; IN-SITU; LABORATORY SCALE; NUTRIENT LOADS; POST-DENITRIFICATION; PROCESS STEPS; RECEIVING WATERS; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SUSPENDED GROWTH; TOTAL NITROGEN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; YIELD COEFFICIENT;

BATCH REACTORS;

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; METHANOL; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBON; NITROGEN;

ACETATE; BIOMASS; DENITRIFICATION; DISCHARGE; ETHANOL; METHANOL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SUBSTRATE; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BATCH REACTOR; BIOMASS; CARBON SOURCE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENITRIFICATION; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMICS; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACETATES; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; ETHANOL; KINETICS; METHANOL; NITROGEN; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77449137547     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.623     Document Type: Article

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