Evaluation of Biological Activated Carbon (BAC) process in wastewater treatment secondary effluent for reclamation purposes

Desalination

Volumn 265, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 266-273

  Kalkan, Çigdem ^a   Yapsakli, Kozet ^a   Mertoglu, Bulent ^a   Tufan, Deniz ^a   Saatci, Ahmet ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Biological Activated Carbon (BAC); Denitrification; Nitrification; Water reclamation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA NITROGEN; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVATED CARBON; COLUMN OPERATIONS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC REMOVAL EFFICIENCY; DOMINANT MECHANISM; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; LABORATORY SCALE; NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TIME-PERIODS; TOTAL NITROGEN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER RECLAMATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILTRATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; DEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; DILUTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EFFLUENT; FILTER; NITRIFICATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

EID: 78349309801     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.07.060     Document Type: Article

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