Nitrous oxide emissions from a typical northern Chinese municipal wastewater treatment plant

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 32, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 145-152

  Wang, Jinhe ^a,b   Zhang, Jian ^a   Wang, Jing ^c   Qi, Pengyu ^a   Ren, Yangang ^a   Hu, Zhen ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Everbright Water (Ji'nan ) Limited   (China)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Greenhouse gas emission; Nitrification; Nitrous oxide; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052901650     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2011.2691     Document Type: Article

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