Towards a low complexity carbon removal model for the optimal design of compact decentralised wastewater treatment systems

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1579-1588

  Moelants, N ^a   Smets, I Y ^a   Van Den Broeck, R ^a   Lambert, N ^b   Liers, S ^b   Declerck, P ^a   Vanysacker, L ^a   Van Impe, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Campus de Nayer   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biofilm respirometry; Biological degradation model; Design optimisation; Hydraulic model; Kinetic parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION KINETICS; BIOLOGICAL DEGRADATION; CARBON REMOVAL; DECENTRALISED; DESIGN OPTIMISATION; INTEGRATED MODELS; LOW COMPLEXITY; OPERATIONAL DESIGN; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; RESPIROMETRY; SEWER NETWORKS; TANKS-IN-SERIES MODEL; TRACER TESTS; TREATMENT SYSTEMS; VALIDATION RESULTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; DEGRADATION; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POWDERS; SEWERS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CARBON; WATER;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; CARBON; DESIGN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TRACER; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; DECENTRALIZATION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SLUDGE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARBON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 77952317777     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.099     Document Type: Article

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