Two strategies for phosphorus removal from reject water of municipal wastewater treatment plant using alum sludge

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3181-3188

  Yang, Y ^a,b   Zhao, Y Q ^a   Babatunde, A O ^a   Kearney, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alum sludge; Municipal wastewater treatment plant; Phosphorus; Reject water; Reuse

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BYPRODUCTS; CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; DEWATERING; FLOCCULATION; PHOSPHORUS; POTABLE WATER; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ALUM SLUDGE; ALUMINIUM SULPHATE; DRINKING WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; FILTRATION VELOCITY; FIXED BED; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; P REDUCTION; P REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; RAW WATER; SLUDGE THICKENING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS; WATER REUSE;

WATER RECYCLING;

ALUMINUM; DRINKING WATER; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMER; REJECT WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; ALUMINUM OXIDE; ALUMINUM POTASSIUM SULFATE; ALUMINUM SULFATE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; DRINKING WATER; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; IMMOBILIZATION; LANDFILL; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALUM SLUDGE; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEWATERING; FILTRATION; FIXED BED REACTOR; SLUDGE; SLUDGE THICKENING; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD; WATER TREATMENT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AEROBIOSIS; ALUM COMPOUNDS; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; ANAEROBIOSIS; FILTRATION; IRELAND; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 77649228057     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.609     Document Type: Article

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