Use of down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor as a promising post-treatment system for municipal wastewater

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 535-543

  Mahmoud, Mohamed ^a   Tawfik, Ahmed ^a,b   El Gohary, Fatma ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b EGYPT JAPAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Agricultural reuse; DHS reactor; Kinetic modeling; Municipal wastewater treatment; Organic loads

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL REUSE; DHS REACTOR; KINETIC MODELING; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ORGANIC LOAD;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 79953299161     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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