Select chemical and engineering properties of wastewater biosolids

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2522-2526

  Arulrajah, A ^a   Disfani, M M ^a   Suthagaran, V ^b   Imteaz, M ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Coffey Geotechnics ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental assessment; Geotechnical experimentation; Wastewater biosolids

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE LIMIT; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; ENGINEERING CHARACTERISTICS; ENGINEERING PROPERTIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; FILL MATERIALS; GEOTECHNICAL; ORGANIC CLAY; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; ROAD EMBANKMENTS; SHEAR STRENGTH TESTS; TRICHLOROETHANE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EMBANKMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; HEAVY METALS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; ROADS AND STREETS; SHEAR STRENGTH; VIRUSES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOSOLIDS;

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEAVY METAL; NITROGEN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PHOSPHORUS;

BIOSOLID; EMBANKMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; PATHOGEN; WASTE FACILITY; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOSOLID; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAY; COMPACTION; CONSOLIDATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CREEP; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; GIARDIA; HELMINTH; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOISTURE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE DENSITY; ROAD EMBANKMENT; SETTLEMENT; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRUCTURAL FILL MATERIAL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VIRUS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS, HEAVY; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; SEWAGE; SHEAR STRENGTH; TOXICITY TESTS; VICTORIA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80054872451     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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