Activated sludge pilot plant: Comparison between experimental and predicted concentration profiles using three different modelling approaches

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3085-3097

  Le Moullec, Y ^a   Potier, O ^a   Gentric, C ^a   Leclerc, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; CFD; Compartmental model; Experiments; Modelling; Pollution removal; Systemic model; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; KINETICS; MODELS; PILOT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; COMPARTMENTAL MODEL; POLLUTION REMOVAL; SYSTEMIC MODELING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

AMMONIA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIUM; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KINETICS; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; SLUDGE BLANKET REACTOR; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 79955484870     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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