Selection of wastewater treatment process based on the analytical hierarchy process and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process methods

International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 267-280

  Karimi, A R ^a   Mehrdadi, N ^a   Hashemian, S J ^b   Nabi Bidhendi, G R ^a   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aerobic process; Fuzzy sets; Linguistic variables; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXIDATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 79952504257     PISSN: 17351472     EISSN: 17352630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03326215     Document Type: Article

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