Performance of down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor coupled with up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor for treatment of onion dehydration wastewater

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 7029-7035

  El Kamah, Hala ^a   Mahmoud, Mohamed ^a   Tawfik, Ahmed ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

DHS; Nitrification; OLR; Onion dehydration wastewater; UASB

Indexed keywords

DHS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG-TERM OPERATION; N REMOVAL; OLR; ONION DEHYDRATION WASTEWATER; PHASE 1; STRINGENT DISCHARGES; UASB; UASB REACTOR; UP-FLOW ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKET REACTORS;

DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DEHYDRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERB; LABORATORY METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SLUDGE; SPONGE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKET REACTOR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DEHYDRATION; DOWN FLOW HANGING SPONGE REACTOR; ONION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIA; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; BIOREACTORS; DEHYDRATION; NITROGEN; ONIONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RHEOLOGY; SEWAGE; TIME FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 79957805820     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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