Nitrification performance in a membrane bioreactor treating industrial wastewater

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4412-4421

  Dvořák, Lukáš ^a   Svojitka, Jan ^b   Wanner, Jiří ^c   Wintgens, Thomas ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LIBEREC   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Adaptation; Industrial wastewater; Inhibition; Membrane bioreactor; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BACTERIA; BIOCONVERSION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; NITRIFICATION; SURFACE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADAPTATION; CHEMICAL WASTEWATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; INHIBITION; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; NITRIFICATION PERFORMANCE; NITRIFYING BACTERIA; PHARMACEUTICAL WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER COMPOSITION;

BIOREACTORS;

AMMONIA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADAPTATION; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INHIBITION; INSTALLATION; MEMBRANE; NITRIFICATION; REACTION KINETICS; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; FLOW RATE; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; KINETICS; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84879012685     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.03.053     Document Type: Article

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