Pilot-scale vermireactors for sewage sludge stabilization and metal remediation process: Comparison with small-scale vermireactors

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 703-712

  Suthar, Surindra ^a  

^a BRG Govt Girls PG College   (India)

Author keywords

Metal remediation; Pilot scale vermireactors; Sewage sludge; Vermistabilization

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE P; EISENIA FETIDA; END-PRODUCTS; EXCHANGEABLE CATION; FIELD OPERATION; IN-FIELD; METAL REMEDIATION; MICROCLIMATE CONDITIONS; OPEN CONDITION; PILOT SCALE; PRODUCTION RATES; REPRODUCTION PATTERN; REVERSE BEHAVIOR; SEWAGE SLUDGE STABILIZATION; SEWAGE-SLUDGE-AMENDED; STOCKING DENSITY; VERMI-COMPOSTING; VERMICOMPOSTS; VERMIREACTORS; VERMISTABILIZATION; WASTE MIXTURES; WASTE STABILIZATION;

CALCIUM; LABORATORIES; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; MINERALOGY; SEWAGE SLUDGE; STABILIZATION; TEXTILE MILLS;

POLLUTION;

BIOREACTOR; COMPOSTING; DECOMPOSITION; EARTHWORM; GROWTH RATE; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT RESIDUE; SLUDGE; SUGAR CANE; WASTE TREATMENT;

EISENIA FETIDA;

EID: 77950342019     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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