Breakage and growth towards a stable aerobic granule size during the treatment of wastewater

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5338-5349

  Verawaty, Marieska ^a   Tait, Stephan ^a   Pijuan, Maite ^a,b   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a   Bond, Philip L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aerobic granules; Breakage; Critical granule size; Growth; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BATCH REACTORS; COAL BREAKAGE; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AEROBIC GRANULAR REACTOR; AEROBIC GRANULAR SLUDGES; AEROBIC GRANULES; GRANULE SIZE; GRANULE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SIZE REDUCTION PROCESS; STEADY-STATE OPERATION;

GRANULATION;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOCCULATION; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULAR MEDIUM; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

AEROBIC REACTOR; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR OPERATION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SLUDGE; STEADY STATE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AEROBIC GRANULES; BREAKAGE; CRITICAL GRANULE SIZE; GROWTH; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ABATTOIRS; AEROBIOSIS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84883445801     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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