Anaerobic biodegradation of personnel care products (PCPs) wastewater in an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 41, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 232-239

  Tawfik, Ahmed ^a,b   Elbatrawy, Omnya ^c  

^a Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^c MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Biodegradability; COD; Methanogenesis; Personnel care products (PCPs); UASB

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864098003     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2012.664719     Document Type: Article

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