Producing free nitrous acid - A green and renewable biocidal agent - From anaerobic digester liquor

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 259, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-69

  Law, Yingyu ^a,b   Ye, Liu ^a   Wang, Qilin ^a   Hu, Shihu ^a   Pijuan, Maite ^c   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digester liquor; Biocide; Free nitrous acid (FNA); Nitritation; Nitrous oxide

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BIOCIDES; INORGANIC ACIDS; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; SEWERS; SLUDGE DIGESTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; ANAEROBIC SLUDGE DIGESTION; ECONOMICAL ASSESSMENTS; FREE NITROUS ACID (FNA); LAB-SCALE SEQUENCING; NITRITATION; NITROUS OXIDE; WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT; BIOCIDAL AGENTS; FREE NITROUS ACIDS;

EFFLUENTS; BIOCIDES;

EID: 84906267071     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.07.138     Document Type: Article

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