Anaerobic membrane reactors

Environmental Anaerobic Technology: Applications and New Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 137-161

  Stuckey, David C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RECYCLING;

ANAEROBIC MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND REMOVALS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; INHIBITORY SUBSTRATES; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE; METHANE SOLUBILITY; PILOT SCALE PLANTS; THERMOPHILIC TEMPERATURES;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

EID: 84871887969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9781848165434_0007     Document Type: Chapter

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