The effects of nutrient limitation (nitrogen and phosphorus) on BOD removal from post-coagulated Pinus radiata sulfite pulp and paper mill wastewater in a baffled aerated stabilisation basin-laboratory pilot scale study

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 491-501

  Dewi, R ^a   Van Leeuwen, J A ^a   Everson, A ^a   Nothrop, S C ^a   Chow, C W K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN WATER QUALITY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ASB; BOD; Coagulation; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Pinus radiata sulfite pulp paper mill

Indexed keywords

ASB; BOD; BOD REMOVAL; CONCURRENT SIMULATION; LABORATORY SCALE; N:P RATIO; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; PAPER MILL EFFLUENTS; PILOT-SCALE STUDY; PINUS RADIATA; PULP AND PAPER MILL; PULP AND PAPER MILL EFFLUENTS; SAMPLE VARIANCE; STABILISATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TREATMENT CONDITIONS;

COAGULATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FLOCCULATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PAPER; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; PAPERMAKING MACHINERY; PHOSPHORUS; PULP MANUFACTURE; STABILIZATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SULFITE PULP;

NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SULFITE;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COAGULATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PAPER INDUSTRY; STEADY STATE; WASTE WATER;

AEROBIOSIS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOCCULATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NITROGEN; PAPER; PHOSPHORUS; PILOT PROJECTS; PINUS; SULFITES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER;

BOD; COAGULATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FLOCCULATION; NITROGEN; PAPER MILLS; PHOSPHORUS; PINUS RADIATA; STABILIZATION; SULFITE PULPING;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 79952220922     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2011.248     Document Type: Article

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