Fast start-up and controlled operation during a long-term period of a high-rate partial nitrification activated sludge system

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1361-1366

  Torà, Josep A ^a   Lafuente, Javier ^a   Carrera, Julián ^a   Baeza, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Control; Nitritation; NOB washout; SRT; Start up

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; CONTROL; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PILOT PLANTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIUM OXIDATION; CONTINUOUS REACTORS; FAST START-UP; FREE AMMONIA INHIBITION; HIGH RATE; HIGH-STRENGTH AMMONIUM; LONG-TERM PERIOD; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; NITRIFYING POPULATION; NITRITATION; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NOB WASHOUT; ON-LINE CONTROLS; OXYGEN LIMITATION; PARTIAL NITRIFICATION; SLUDGE RETENTION TIME; SRT; START-UPS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIUM; BIOREACTOR; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMESTIC WASTE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATE; WASTE FACILITY; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANAMMOX BACTERIA; ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PILOT STUDY; TEMPERATURE; TIME; VOLUMETRY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 84862569721     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2011.626802     Document Type: Article

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