Production of nitrous oxide from anaerobic digester centrate and its use as a co-oxidant of biogas to enhance energy recovery

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5612-5619

  Scherson, Yaniv D ^a,b   Woo, Sung Geun ^a   Criddle, Craig S ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTINUOUS STIRRED REACTORS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; FULL-SCALE TESTING; PARTIAL OXIDATIONS; POLYHYDROXYBUTYRATE; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS;

REDUCTION;

ACETIC ACID; AMMONIA; BIOGAS; NITROUS OXIDE; PHOSPHORUS; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLYPHOSPHATE;

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOGAS; BIOREACTOR; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NITROGEN OXIDES; NITROUS OXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CICERIBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMAMONAS; COMBUSTION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR; ENERGY RECOVERY; EXHAUST GAS; FLOW RATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BATCH CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; BIOFUELS; BIOREACTORS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; NITRITES; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84901008913     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501009j     Document Type: Article

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