High-throughput nitritation of reject water with a novel ammonium control loop: Stable effluent generation for anammox or heterotrophic denitritation

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 243, Issue , 2014, Pages 265-271

  Torà, Josep A ^a   Lafuente, Javier ^a   Garcia Belinchón, Carme ^b   Bouchy, Lynne ^b   Carrera, Julián ^a   Baeza, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MATGAS Research Centre ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Anammox; AOB; Control; Nitritation; Partial nitrification; TAN

Indexed keywords

ANAMMOX; AOB; NITRITATION; PARTIAL NITRIFICATION; TAN;

CONTROL; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN OXIDES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EFFLUENTS;

EID: 84893400475     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.11.056     Document Type: Article

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