Nitrogen removal in moving bed sequencing batch reactor using polyurethane foam cubes of various sizes as carrier materials

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 9876-9883

  Lim, Jun Wei ^a   Seng, Chye Eng ^a   Lim, Poh Eng ^a   Ng, Si Ling ^a   Ahmad Sujari, Amat Ngilmi ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Moving bed sequencing batch reactor; Polyurethane foam; Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification; Total nitrogen removal

Indexed keywords

BATCH STUDIES; CARRIER MATERIAL; CARRIER MEDIA; MOVING BED; POLYURETHANE FOAM; POLYURETHANE FOAMS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SIMULTANEOUS NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL NITROGEN REMOVAL;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; DENITRIFICATION; GEOMETRY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXIDATION; POLYURETHANES; RIGID FOAMED PLASTICS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BATCH REACTORS;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; POLYURETHAN FOAM;

BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; ETHANE; FOAM; NITROGEN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER;

AERATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; MOVING BED SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; NITRIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BATCH CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYURETHANES; SOLUBILITY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 80053116899     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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