Tertiary denitrification of the secondary effluent by denitrifying biofilters packed with different sizes of quartz sand

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1300-1311

  Wei, Nan ^a   Shi, Yunhong ^a   Wu, Guangxue ^a   Hu, Hongying ^a   Wu, Yihui ^b   Wen, Hui ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Kunming Dianchi Water Group Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Denitrifying biofilters; Empty bed retention times; Media size; Secondary effluent; Tertiary denitrification

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTERS; EUTROPHICATION; LOADING;

BACK WASHING; DIFFERENT SIZES; LOADING RATE; MEDIA SIZE; RECEIVING WATER BODIES; RETENTION TIME; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

DENITRIFICATION;

DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SAND; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84901989859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6051300     Document Type: Article

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