Reducing the startup time of aerobic granular sludge reactors through seeding floccular sludge with crushed aerobic granules

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5075-5083

  Pijuan, Maite ^a,b   Werner, Ursula ^a   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aerobic granules; Crushed granules; Nutrient removal; Nutrient rich wastewater; Seeding; Startup

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CLOUD SEEDING; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MIXTURES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; REACTOR STARTUP; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AEROBIC GRANULAR SLUDGE REACTORS; AEROBIC GRANULAR SLUDGES; AEROBIC GRANULES; CRUSHED GRANULES; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS;

GRANULATION;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

BIOMASS; FLOCCULATION; INHIBITOR; NITRITE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OXIC CONDITIONS; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEEDING; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER; WATER TECHNOLOGY;

AEROBIC REACTOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CELL AGGREGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80052270049     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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