Screening pretreatment methods to enhance thermophilic anaerobic digestion of pulp and paper mill wastewater treatment secondary sludge

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 223, Issue , 2013, Pages 479-486

  Bayr, Suvi ^a   Kaparaju, Prasad ^a   Rintala, Jukka ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Methane yield; Pretreatment; Pulp and paper mill; Secondary sludge

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL PRETREATMENT; METHANE YIELD; ORGANIC MATTER SOLUBILIZATIONS; PRE-TREATMENT; PULP AND PAPER MILL; PULP AND PAPER MILL WASTEWATERS; SECONDARY SLUDGE; THERMOPHILIC ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

ALKALINITY; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NITRIC ACID; PULP MANUFACTURE; SOLUBILITY; ULTRASONICS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

METHANE;

ALKALINITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; METHANE; NITRIC ACID; SLUDGE; SOLUBILITY; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES;

EID: 84876300888     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.02.119     Document Type: Article

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