Pushing the hydraulic retention time envelope in Modified Ludzack Ettinger systems

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 202-211

  Hafez, Hisham ^a   Elbeshbishy, Elsayed ^a   Chowdhury, Nabin ^a   Nakhla, George ^a   Fitzgerald, John ^b   Van Rossum, Anthony ^b   Gauld, Geordie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Greenway Pollution Control Plant   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass yield; Hydraulic retention time; Nitrification denitrification; Process modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; BIOMASS YIELD; COLD CLIMATE; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; FULL-SCALE PLANTS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; NITRIFICATION-DENITRIFICATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PILOT TESTING; PRIMARY EFFLUENT; PROCESS MODELING; RESPIROMETRIC STUDIES; SETTLEABILITY; SLUDGE VOLUME INDEX; SPECIFIC NITRIFICATION RATE; TEMPERATURE CORRECTION; TOTAL NITROGEN REMOVAL;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOMASS; EFFLUENTS; HYDRAULICS; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DENITRIFICATION;

EID: 77956652169     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.07.033     Document Type: Article

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