Pilot-scale waste activated sludge alkaline fermentation, fermentation liquid separation, and application of fermentation liquid to improve biological nutrient removal

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1834-1839

  Li, Xiang ^a   Chen, Hong ^a   Hu, Lanfang ^a   Yu, Lei ^a   Chen, Yinguang ^a   Gu, Guowei ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; CARBON SOURCE; CHEMICAL COSTS; DENITRIFYING PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; FERMENTATION SYSTEMS; LABORATORY STUDIES; LIQUID SEPARATION; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; ORGANICS; PILOT SCALE; PILOT-SCALE STUDY; PRODUCTION IMPROVEMENT; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; SLUDGE DEWATERING; SLUDGE FERMENTATION; VOLATILE SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CALCIUM; FATTY ACIDS; LIQUIDS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; PH EFFECTS; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER;

FERMENTATION;

CALCIUM HYDROXIDE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALKALINITY; CARBON; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; FATTY ACID; FERMENTATION; HYDROXIDE; LABORATORY METHOD; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PH; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DENITRIFICATION; FERMENTATION; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; PH; PILOT STUDY; SLUDGE DEWATERING; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOREACTORS; CALCIUM HYDROXIDE; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FERMENTATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATES; PILOT PROJECTS; SEWAGE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79952122646     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1031882     Document Type: Article

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