Application of high rate nitrifying trickling filters to remove low concentrations of ammonia from reclaimed municipal wastewater

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2425-2432

  Van Den Akker, B ^a,c   Holmes, M ^b   Short, M D ^c   Cromar, N J ^a   Fallowfield, H J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b United Water International   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Chlorine demand; Nitrification; Reclaimed wastewater; Snails; Trickling filters

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BIOMASS; CHLORINE DEMAND; FEED CONCENTRATION; HIGH ORGANIC; HIGH RATE; HIGH-FLOW RATE; HYDRAULIC FLOW; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; NITRIFICATION RATES; PILOT EXPERIMENT; RE-CLAIMED WATER; RECLAIMED WASTEWATER; SNAILS; TREATMENT PLANTS; TRICKLING FILTER;

AMMONIA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

AMMONIA; ORGANIC CARBON;

AMMONIA; CHLORINATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTER; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC CARBON; SNAIL; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FLOW RATE; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING TRICKLING FILTER; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; SNAIL; TRICKLING FILTER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; CARBON; FILTRATION; NITRATES; NITRITES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PILOT PROJECTS; SNAILS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 77954495666     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.708     Document Type: Article

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