Improving disintegration and acidification of waste activated sludge by combined alkaline and microwave pretreatment

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 521-526

  Yang, Qi ^a   Yi, Jun ^a   Luo, Kun ^a   Jing, Xiaoli ^a   Li, Xiaoming ^a,b   Liu, Yang ^a,c   Zeng, Guangming ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Hunan Engineering Research Center of Urban and Rural Domestic Waste Treatment and Disposal   (China)

Author keywords

Acidification; Alkaline microwave pretreatment; Disintegration; Response surface methodology; Waste activated sludge

Indexed keywords

COMBINED PRE TREATMENTS; DISINTEGRATION DEGREES; MICROWAVE PRETREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENT; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; SPECIFIC ENERGY INPUT; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS (VFAS); WASTE ACTIVATED SLUDGES;

ACIDIFICATION; ALKALINITY; DISINTEGRATION; MICROWAVES; PH EFFECTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

EID: 84888432109     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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