Anaerobic co-digestion of sewage sludge with shredded grass from public green spaces

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 667-672

  Hidaka, Taira ^a   Arai, Sayuri ^a,b   Okamoto, Seiichiro ^a,b   Uchida, Tsutomu ^a  

^a PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport   (Japan)

Author keywords

Co digestion; Dewaterability; Grass; Sewage sludge; Shredding

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; METHANE; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

ANAEROBIC CO-DIGESTION; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CODIGESTION; DEWATERABILITY; GRASS; GRASS SILAGES; GRASS SPECIES; GREEN SPACES; MESOPHILIC; METHANE PRODUCTION; PUBLIC SPACE; SHREDDING; SIMPLE OPERATION;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

CARBON; METHANE; NITROGEN;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CARBON; DEWATERING; DIGESTIBILITY; FERMENTATION; GRASS; GREENSPACE; METHANE; NITROGEN; PUBLIC SPACE; SEWAGE; SLUDGE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRASS; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHREDDED GRASS; SILAGE; SLUDGE DEWATERING; SLUDGE DIGESTION;

EID: 84872386493     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.12.068     Document Type: Article

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