Optimizing vermistabilization of waste activated sludge using vermicompost as bulking material

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 502-511

  Hait, Subrata ^a   Tare, Vinod ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; C/N RATIO; COMPOSTED MATERIALS; EARTHWORM SPECIES; EISENIA FETIDA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH HUMIDITY; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; ORGANIC MANURE; ORGANIC MATTER; PROCESSING UNITS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SPECIFIC OXYGEN UPTAKE RATE; STOCKING DENSITY; TOTAL CARBON; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TOTAL PHOSPHOROUS; VERMI-COMPOSTING; VERMICOMPOSTING SYSTEMS; VERMICOMPOSTS; VERMICULTURE; VERMISTABILIZATION; VOLATILE SOLID; WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MANURES; MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RECYCLING; TEXTILE MILLS; WASTE TREATMENT;

ORGANIC CARBON;

NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AGRONOMY; COMPOSTING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HAZARDOUS WASTE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AGRONOMY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; EISENIA FOETIDA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; MANURE; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RECYCLING; REPRODUCTION; SLUDGE STABILIZATION; STOCKING DENSITY; VERMICOMPOST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CARBON; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN; OLIGOCHAETA; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RECYCLING; SEWAGE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EISENIA FETIDA;

EID: 79151480172     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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