Startup pattern and performance enhancement of pilot-scale biofilm process for raw water pretreatment

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 172, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-31

  Yang, Guang feng ^a   Feng, Li juan ^a,c   Yang, Qi ^a   Zhu, Liang ^a,b   Xu, Jian ^a   Xu, Xiang yang ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory for Water Pollution Control and Environmental Safety of Zhejiang Province   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Nitrogen removal; Pretreatment process; Raw water; Trihalomethane prediction model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ALGAE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; NITRITE ACCUMULATION; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; PREDICTION MODEL; PRETREATMENT PROCESS; RAW WATER; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES;

BIOFILMS;

NITRITE; TRIHALOMETHANE; WATER; CHLOROPHYLL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DISINFECTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY;

AERATION; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFILM REACTOR; BIOMASS; DISINFECTION; NITRIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT; ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DEVICES; EUKARYOTE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; TIME; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CHLOROPHYLL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EUKARYOTA; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84907519206     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.08.116     Document Type: Article

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