Production of volatile fatty acids from wastewater screenings using a leach-bed reactor

Water Research

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 242-249

  Cadavid Rodríguez, Luz Stella ^a   Horan, Nigel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acidification; Anaerobic digestion; Hydrolysis; PH; Volatile fatty acids; Wastewater screenings

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBON FOOTPRINT; HYDROLYSIS; LEACHING; PH; PROPIONIC ACID; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

FATTY ACID PRODUCTIONS; LEACH BED REACTORS; LEACHATES; OPTIMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; PH; PH VALUE; PRE-TREATMENTS; RECIRCULATION RATIO; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER SCREENING;

VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; AMMONIA; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBON; PROPIONIC ACID; VOLATILE FATTY ACID; ACID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

AMMONIA; CARBON FOOTPRINT; DIGESTIBILITY; FATTY ACID; HYDROLYSIS; LEACHATE; METHANOGENESIS; PH; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACIDIFICATION; ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ALKALINITY; AMMONIA FORMATION; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ANAEROBIC REACTOR; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DILUTION; HYDROLYSIS; LEACH BED REACTOR; LEACHING; METHANOGENESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WASTEWATER SCREENING; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACIDS; BIOREACTORS; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FERMENTATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROLYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84901195376     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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