The effect of organic loading rate on foam initiation during mesophilic anaerobic digestion of municipal wastewater sludge

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6637-6643

  Ganidi, Nafsika ^a,b   Tyrrel, Sean ^a   Cartmell, Elise ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ANGLIAN WATER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Filaments; Foaming; Organic loading; Sludge

Indexed keywords

BATCH STUDIES; COMBINED EFFECT; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; FILAMENTS; FOAMING; FULL SCALE; LIQUID AND GAS PHASIS; LOADING RATE; MESOPHILIC ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER SLUDGE; ORGANIC LOAD; ORGANIC LOADING RATES; ORGANIC LOADINGS; QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC; SLUDGE;

LOADING; PULP DIGESTERS; SLUDGE DIGESTION; WASTEWATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOMASS; BIOMONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOAM; LABORATORY METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SLUDGE; STABILIZATION; THRESHOLD; WASTEWATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOAMING; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FERMENTATION; SEWAGE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 79955629301     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.03.057     Document Type: Article

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