Gravity drainage of activated sludge: New experimental method and considerations of settling velocity, specific cake resistance and cake compressibility

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1941-1950

  Dominiak, Dominik ^a   Christensen, Morten ^a   Keiding, Kristian ^a   Nielsen, Per Halkjær ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Cake resistance; Gravity drainage; Sludge compressibility; Sludge settling

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; GRAVITATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CAKE COMPRESSIBILITIES; CAKE RESISTANCE; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; NEW EXPERIMENTAL METHOD; SETTLING VELOCITY; SLUDGE COMPRESSIBILITY; SLUDGE SETTLING; SPECIFIC CAKE RESISTANCES; VOLUMETRICS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; DEWATERING; DRAINAGE; DRY MATTER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTRATION; GRAVITY FIELD; LOW PRESSURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SETTLING VELOCITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CAKE DRY MATTER; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTRATION; GRAVITY; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE DEWATERING; SLUDGE DRYING; SOLID; VELOCITY; VOLUMETRY; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79951578845     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.12.029     Document Type: Article

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