Energy and nutrient recovery for municipal wastewater treatment: How to design a feasible plant layout?

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 68, Issue , 2015, Pages 156-165

  Khiewwijit, Rungnapha ^a,b   Temmink, Hardy ^a,b   Rijnaarts, Huub ^b   Keesman, Karel J ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Configuration analysis; Energy recovery; Municipal wastewater treatment; Nutrients recovery; Wastewater management

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; DESIGN; NUTRIENTS; PLANT LAYOUT; RECOVERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; CONFIGURATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; STEADY-STATE ENERGIES; WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DIGESTIBILITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MASS BALANCE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84924280478     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.02.011     Document Type: Article

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