Modelling enhanced groundwater denitrification in batch micrococosm tests

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-9

  Calderer, M ^a,b   Jubany, I ^a   Perez R ^a,b   Marti V ^a,b   de Pablo, J ^a,b  

^a CTM Centre Tecnologic   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calibration; Enhanced denitrification; Fisher Information Matrix; Modelling; Practical identifiability

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; AQUIFER SYSTEMS; BATCH TESTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECAY RATE CONSTANTS; DENTRIFICATION; ENHANCED DENITRIFICATION; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FED BATCHES; FISHER INFORMATION; GROUNDWATER DENITRIFICATION; HETEROTROPHIC BIOMASS; IN-SITU; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MICROBIAL PROCESS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODELLING; NATURAL SYSTEMS; NITRATE-CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; OPERATION TESTS; PRACTICAL IDENTIFIABILITY; SENSITIVE PARAMETER; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT;

AQUIFERS; BIOREMEDIATION; CALIBRATION; DECAY (ORGANIC); DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGY; GLUCOSE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NITRATES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; POPULATION STATISTICS; RATE CONSTANTS; SOILS; TESTING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX;

EID: 78149499716     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.08.042     Document Type: Review

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