Nitrification of an industrial wastewater in a moving-bed biofilm reactor: Effect of salt concentration

Environmental Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 837-846

  Vendramel, Simone ^a   Dezotti, Marcia ^a   Sant'Anna Jr , Geraldo L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

industrial wastewater; moving bed biofilm reactor; nitrification; saline wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHLORINE; DENITRIFICATION; EFFICIENCY; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION; REACTOR OPERATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WASTEWATER;

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BATCH MODES; CHLORIDE CONTENTS; HETEROTROPHS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; INHIBITORY COMPOUNDS; KINETIC MODELS; MOVING-BED BIOFILM REACTOR; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; PLC SYSTEM; PROCESS STABILIZATION; PROCESS VARIABLES; REACTION PERIOD; RESIDUAL CHEMICALS; SALINE WASTEWATER; SALT CONCENTRATION;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AUTOTROPHY; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INHIBITION; NITRIFICATION; REACTION KINETICS; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STABILIZATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ADHESION; AERATION; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFILM REACTOR; BIOMASS; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTOR; NITRIFICATION; WASTE WATER;

EID: 79959422067     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2010.514949     Document Type: Article

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