Sulfide removal from industrial wastewaters by lithotrophic denitrification using nitrate as an electron acceptor

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2286-2293

  Can Dogan, Esra ^a   Turker, Mustafa ^b   Dagasan, Levent ^b   Arslan, Ayla ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Pakmaya   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biogas cleaning; Hydrogen sulfide; Lithotrophic denitrification; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS; CLEANING PROCESS; DENITRIFICATION PROCESS; EFFLUENT STREAMS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; END-PRODUCTS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; LITHOTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION; LOADING RATE; SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS; SULFIDE CONCENTRATION; SULFIDE OXIDATION; SULFIDE REMOVAL; VOLUMETRIC LOADING RATES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; YIELD VALUE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOGAS; CLEANING; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; LOADING; NITRATES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; STOICHIOMETRY; SULFUR DETERMINATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

BIOGAS; NITRATE; SULFIDE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOGAS; DENITRIFICATION; FERMENTATION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NITRATE; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SUBSTRATE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FERMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OXIDATION; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BIOREACTORS; ELECTRONS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEWAGE; SULFIDES; TIME FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 79951652300     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.545     Document Type: Article

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