Greenhouse gas emission and energy consumption in wastewater treatment plants: Impact of operating parameters

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 207-220

  Ashrafi, Omid ^a   Yerushalmi, Laleh ^a   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anaerobic and hybrid systems; Modeling; On site and off site emission sources; Process parameters; Pulp and paper wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTOR; COAGULATION; EMISSION CONTROL; FLOCCULATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

EID: 84896708396     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201200158     Document Type: Article

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