The impact of precipitation and external carbon source addition on biological nutrient removal in activated sludge systems - experimental investigation and mathematical modeling

Water Practice and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Makinia, J ^a   Drewnowski, J ^a   Swinarski, M ^b   Czerwionka, K ^a   Kaszubowska, M ^a   Majtacz, J ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Saur Neptun Gdansk SA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Batch test; Coagulation; Denitrification; EBPR; External carbon source; Primary settling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BATCH TESTS; EBPR; EXTERNAL CARBON SOURCE; PRIMARY SETTLING;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; COAGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENITRIFICATION; ETHANOL; EXPERIMENTS; FLOCCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

CARBON;

EID: 84857530259     PISSN: 1751231X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wpt.2012.011     Document Type: Article

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