Sewage treatment in an up-flow anaerobic sponge reactor followed by moving bed biofilm reactor based on polyurethane carrier material

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 37, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 350-358

  Tawfik, Ahmed ^a,b   Badr, Nagwa ^b   Taleb, Enas Abu ^b   El Senousy, Waleed ^b  

^a EGYPT JAPAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

FC; MBBR; Nitrification; Sewage; Sludge; Sponge; UASB; UASR

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025324366     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2012.661291     Document Type: Article

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