Engineering application of membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment in China: Current state and future prospect

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 805-819

  Xiao, Kang ^a,b   Xu, Ying ^a   Liang, Shuai ^a,c   Lei, Ting ^a   Sun, Jianyu ^a   Wen, Xianghua ^a   Zhang, Hongxun ^b   Chen, Chunsheng ^a   Huang, Xia ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Engineering application; Membrane bioreactor (MBR); Review; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920268573     PISSN: 20952201     EISSN: 2095221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-014-0756-8     Document Type: Article

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