Sustainable options of post treatment of UASB effluent treating sewage: A review

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1232-1251

  Khan, Abid Ali ^a   Gaur, Rubia Zahid ^a   Tyagi, V K ^a   Khursheed, Anwar ^a   Lew, Beni ^b   Mehrotra, Indu ^a   Kazmi, A A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

High rate micro aerobic treatment systems; NBMS; Polishing methods; Post settling treatment step; Sewage; UASB post treatment

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; AEROBIC SYSTEMS; CONCEPT-BASED; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; EFFLUENT QUALITY; NBMS; POST SETTLING TREATMENT STEP; POST TREATMENT; RESOURCE PRESERVATION; SMALL COMMUNITY; SOLUBLE MATTERS; SUSPENDED MATTERS; SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT SYSTEMS; UASB REACTOR; UPFLOW ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKETS;

BIOMINERALIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLISHING; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

DEVELOPING WORLD; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

BIODEGRADATION; COLLOID; DOMESTIC WASTE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT; RECYCLING; REVIEW; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UPFLOW REACTOR; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80053353259     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2011.05.017     Document Type: Review

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