Monitoring of microbial storage products and the effciency of an activated sludge plant performing anoxic phosphorus removal under different operational conditions

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 23, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 73-79

  Zafiriadis, Ilias ^a   Kapagiannidis, Anastasios G ^a   Aivasidis, Alexander ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acetate; Continuous flow plant; Denitrifying phosphorus removal; DPAOs; Polyhydroxyalkanoates

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649742246     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2010.1953     Document Type: Article

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