Aeration strategies to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from single-stage nitritation/anammox reactors

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 8679-8687

  Domingo Félez, Carlos ^a   Mutlu, A Gizem ^a   Jensen, Marlene M ^a   Smets, Barth F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; FLOW RATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES;

AERATION STRATEGIES; AEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; AMMONIUM OXIDATION; AUTOTROPHIC NITROGEN REMOVAL; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; PRODUCTION RATES; RESOURCE-EFFICIENT; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS;

LOADING;

AMMONIA; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN;

AERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; AIR POLLUTION; BIOREACTOR; EVALUATION STUDY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

AIR POLLUTION; BIOREACTORS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN;

EID: 84905638678     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501819n     Document Type: Article

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