Biological nutrient removal in a continuous anaerobic-aerobic-anoxic process treating synthetic domestic wastewater

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 225, Issue , 2013, Pages 223-229

  Liu, Gang ^a,b   Xu, Xiangyang ^a   Zhu, Liang ^a   Xing, Shuo ^a   Chen, Jianyu ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

AOA process; Biological nutrient removal; Domestic wastewater; Low dissolved oxygen; Poly hydroxybutyrate

Indexed keywords

AOA PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; HYDROXYBUTYRATE; LOW DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CARBON; DENITRIFICATION; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NUTRIENTS;

EID: 84876736495     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.01.098     Document Type: Article

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