Process variant for the treatment of anaerobic digester effluent with a membrane bioreactor

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 611-617

  Wäger Baumann, Frank ^a   Fuchs, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

activated sludge; anaerobic digester effluent; filtration; membrane bioreactor; sedimentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; CERAMIC MICROFILTRATION; CONSTANT LEVEL; CROSSFLOW VELOCITIES; FLUX RATES; HIGH FLUX; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; LOW FLUX; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; PARTICLE REMOVAL; PERMEATE FLUX; PROCESS VARIANTS; SETTLING PROPERTIES; SOURCE MATERIAL; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOCONVERSION; CERAMIC MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; ULTRAFILTRATION;

BIOREACTORS;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; ENZYME MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; FILTRATION; SEDIMENTATION; SLUDGE;

EID: 80051960858     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: 15579018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2010.0153     Document Type: Article

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