An assessment of the feasibility of employing biochemical acidogenic potential tests for characterizing anaerobic biodegradability of raw and pretreated waste activated sludge

Water Environment Research

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 362-369

  Kianmehr, Peiman ^a   Parker, Wayne ^a   Seto, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Biochemical Acid Potential (BAP); Biochemical methane potential (BMP); Characterization tests; Model; Waste activated sludge (WAS) pretreatment

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; CARBOHYDRATES; CHAINS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FATTY ACIDS; LIPIDS; METHANE; MODELS; PROTEINS; SLUDGE DIGESTION; TESTING;

ANAEROBIC BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOCHEMICAL ACID POTENTIAL (BAP); BIOCHEMICAL ACIDOGENIC POTENTIALS; BIOCHEMICAL METHANE POTENTIAL; CHARACTERIZATION TESTS; PRE-TREATMENT; SOLUBLE CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMANDS; WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGES;

VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ACETIC ACID; ACID; HYDROGEN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ACETATE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DIGESTIBILITY; FATTY ACID; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INHIBITION; LIPID; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; SLUDGE; STOICHIOMETRY; TESTING METHOD; WASTE TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMICAL ACID POTENTIAL; BIOCHEMICAL METHANE POTENTIAL; BIODEGRADABILITY; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; OZONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; STOICHIOMETRY; WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84863335496     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143011X13233670703404     Document Type: Article

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