Biodrying of sewage sludge: Kinetics of volatile solids degradation under different initial moisture contents and air-flow rates

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 174, Issue , 2014, Pages 33-41

  Villegas, Manuel ^a   Huiliñir, Cesar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Biodrying; Initial moisture content; Kinetics; Sewage sludge

Indexed keywords

AIR; ENZYME KINETICS; FLOW RATE; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETIC THEORY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MICROBIOLOGY; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

BIO-DRYING; INITIAL MOISTURE CONTENT; MATRIX TEMPERATURES; MOISTURE REMOVAL; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION METHOD; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATISFACTORY PREDICTIONS; STATISTICAL INDICATORS;

BIODEGRADATION;

NITROGEN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEWAGE;

AIRFLOW; BIODEGRADATION; MOISTURE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

AERATION; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; KINETICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOISTURE; SLUDGE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTENT; AIR; DESICCATION; FLOW KINETICS; HUMIDITY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR; DESICCATION; HUMIDITY; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RHEOLOGY; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84908129457     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.09.136     Document Type: Article

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