An innovative of aerobic bio-entrapped salt marsh sediment membrane reactor for the treatment of high-saline pharmaceutical wastewater

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 295, Issue , 2016, Pages 317-325

  Ng, Kok Kwang ^a   Shi, Xueqing ^a   Ong, Say Leong ^a   Lin, Cheng Fang ^b   Ng, How Yong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Entrapped biomass; Membrane bioreactor; Membrane fouling; Pharmaceutical wastewater; Salt marsh sediment

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FOULING; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; SALT REMOVAL; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

CONVENTIONAL MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MIXED LIQUOR SUSPENDED SOLIDS; PHARMACEUTICAL WASTEWATER; RECALCITRANT ORGANIC MATTER; SALT MARSHES; SOLUBLE MICROBIAL PRODUCTS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 84962520551     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.03.046     Document Type: Article

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