SANI® process realizes sustainable saline sewage treatment: Steady state model-based evaluation of the pilot-scale trial of the process

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 475-490

  Lu, Hui ^a   Ekama, George A ^b   Wu, Di ^a   Feng, Jiang ^a,c   van Loosdrecht, Mark C M ^d,e   Chen, Guang Hao ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Saline sewage; Saline water supply; Steady state model

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ALKALINITY; AMMONIA; ANOXIC WATER; FORECASTING; HYDROLYSIS; PH; PILOT PLANTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER SUPPLY;

ANAEROBIC HYDROLYSIS; AUTOTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; PILOT SCALE TRIALS; SLUDGE RETENTION TIME; STEADY-STATE MODELING; SULFATE REDUCTION; WEAK ACID/BASE CHEMISTRY;

SALINE WATER;

AMMONIA; BICARBONATE; CARBON; HYDROGEN; NITRATE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALKALINITY; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; HYDROLYSIS; MASS BALANCE; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PH; REACTION KINETICS; RETENTION; SEWAGE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SULFUR CYCLE; WATER SUPPLY;

ALKALINITY; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; HYDROLYSIS; NITRIFICATION; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEADY STATE; STOICHIOMETRY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84355162743     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.11.031     Document Type: Article

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