Zero valent iron significantly enhances methane production from waste activated sludge by improving biochemical methane potential rather than hydrolysis rate

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Yiwen ^a   Wang, Qilin ^a   Zhang, Yaobin ^b   Ni, Bing Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; METHANE; SEWAGE;

HYDROLYSIS; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HYDROLYSIS; IRON; METHANE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 84937880693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08263     Document Type: Article

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