Biological treatment by activated sludge of petroleum refinery wastewaters

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 51, Issue 34-36, 2013, Pages 6641-6654

  Santo, Carlos E ^a   Vilar, Vítor J P ^a   Bhatnagar, Amit ^a   Kumar, Eva ^a   Botelho, Cidália M S ^a   Boaventura, Rui A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Activated sludge process; Biomass production; Kinetics; Oxygen consumption; Petroleum refinery wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOREACTOR; PETROLEUM; RECYCLING; REFINING INDUSTRY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84887046426     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.792141     Document Type: Article

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