Micropollutant removal by attached and suspended growth in a hybrid biofilm-activated sludge process

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4498-4506

  Falas P ^a,b   Longree P ^b   La Cour Jansen, J ^a   Siegrist, H ^b   Hollender, J ^b   Joss, A ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Biodegradation; Biofilm carriers; Organic micropollutants; Pharmaceuticals; Redox conditions

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIODEGRADATION; GROWTH KINETICS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ATTACHED GROWTH; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOFILM ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOFILM CARRIERS; MICROPOLLUTANT REMOVALS; ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS; REDOX CONDITION; REMOVAL RATE; SUSPENDED GROWTH;

BIOFILMS;

ABANDONED MINE; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; DRUG; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OXIC CONDITIONS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REDOX CONDITIONS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BATCH PROCESS; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DESORPTION; NITRIFICATION; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

EID: 84879017224     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.05.010     Document Type: Article

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