Composting kinetics in full-scale mechanical-biological treatment plants

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1908-1921

  Baptista, Marco ^a,b   Antunes, Fernando ^c   Gonçalves, Manuel Souteiro ^b   Morvan, Bernard ^d   Silveira, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Agraria e das Pescas   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; COMPOSTING PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; K-VALUES; KINETIC MODELS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MECHANICAL-BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; OPTIMUM MOISTURE CONTENT; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; VOLATILE SOLID;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIODEGRADATION; KINETIC THEORY; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OXYGEN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTES;

WASTE TREATMENT;

NITROGEN; OXYGEN; WATER;

BIODEGRADATION; COMPOSTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; REACTION RATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; BULK DENSITY; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOISTURE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BIOREACTORS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956267560     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.04.027     Document Type: Article

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