Identifying sensitive sources and key control handles for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment

Water Research

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 249-259

  Sweetapple, Christine ^a   Fu, Guangtao ^a   Butler, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Greenhouse gas; Operation; Sensitivity; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; QUALITY CONTROL; RECLAMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

% REDUCTIONS; ANALYSIS METHOD; EFFLUENT QUALITY; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSES GAS; KEY CONTROL; OPERATION; SENSITIVITY; SOURCE CONTROL; TRADE OFF;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NITRIC OXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; GAS; WASTE WATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EFFLUENT; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE GAS; NITROUS OXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; TRADE-OFF; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FLOW RATE; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; GAS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; GASES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84904655654     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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