A review of the impact and potential of intermittent aeration on continuous flow nitrifying activated sludge

Environmental Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1685-1697

  Dotro, Gabriela ^a,b   Jefferson, Bruce ^a   Jones, Mark ^b   Vale, Peter ^b   Cartmell, Elise ^a   Stephenson, Tom ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SEVERN TRENT WATER LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

deflocculation; dissolved oxygen; nitrification; nitrous oxide; variable consents

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETICS; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE PLANTS; AIR SUPPLY; CARBON EQUIVALENT EMISSION; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; DEFLOCCULATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; EFFLUENT QUALITY; EFFLUENT TURBIDITY; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; INTERMITTENT AERATION; INTERMITTENT OPERATION; MECHANICAL MIXING; MIXED LIQUOR SUSPENDED SOLIDS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NITRIFICATION RATES; NITROUS OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; OPERATIONAL COSTS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; VARIABLE CONSENTS;

NITRIFICATION;

CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENT; FLOCCULATION; GROWTH RATE; LITERATURE REVIEW; NITRIFICATION; NITROUS OXIDE; SUSPENDED LOAD; TURBIDITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOREACTOR; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; FLOCCULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYER; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSION; SEWAGE; TURBIDITY;

EID: 84857077694     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2011.597783     Document Type: Article

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