Biological treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater from the antibiotics industry

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 855-861

  Lefebvre, O ^a   Shi, X ^a   Wu, C H ^b   Ng, H Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biological treatment; Membrane bioreactor; Ozonation; Pharmaceutical wastewater; Sequencing batch reactor

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; BIOREFRACTORY COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; ORGANIC LOADING RATES; PHARMACEUTICAL WASTEWATER; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ANTIBIOTICS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; OZONE; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; OZONIZATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

LOADING;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AROMATIC COMPOUND; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT;

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOFILTRATION; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DISSOLUTION; DRUG; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AEROBIC REACTOR; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOFILTER; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; DRUG INDUSTRY; FOAMING; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROTHRIX; OZONATION; PH; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SOLID; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOREACTORS; DRUG INDUSTRY; FILTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OZONE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84896790983     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2013.729     Document Type: Article

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