Enhancing the sludge dewaterability by electrolysis/electrocoagulation combined with zero-valent iron activated persulfate process

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 303, Issue , 2016, Pages 636-645

  Li, Yifu ^a   Yuan, Xingzhong ^a   Wu, Zhibin ^a   Wang, Hou ^a   Xiao, Zhihua ^a   Wu, Yan ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^b   Zeng, Guangming ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE   (China)

Author keywords

Dewaterability; Electrocoagulation; Extracellular polymeric substance (EPS); Persulfate; Wasted activated sludge (WAS)

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DEWATERING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTROLYSIS; IRON; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOSITY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; DEWATERABILITY; ELECTRO COAGULATIONS; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; PERSULFATE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

EID: 84975490873     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.06.041     Document Type: Article

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