Application of imaging techniques for monitoring flocs in activated sludge

2012 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, ICoBE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 6-9

  Nisar, Humaira ^a   Yong, Lee Xue ^a   Ho, Yeap Kim ^a   Voon, Yap Vooi ^a   Siang, Soh Chit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

activated sludge; flocs and filaments; image processing; WWTPs digital image analysis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE FLOCS; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

EID: 84860656098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICoBE.2012.6178977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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