Potentials of biological oxidation processes for the treatment of spent sulfidic caustics containing thiols

Water Research

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4331-4340

  Sipma, Jan ^a   Svitelskaya, Anna ^a   Van Der Mark, Bart ^a   Hulshoff Pol, Look W ^a   Lettinga, Gatze ^a   Buisman, Cees J N ^a   Janssen, Albert J H ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Paques BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological oxidation; Biomass retention; Dimethyldisulfide; Ethanethiol; Methanethiol; Refinery spent sulfidic caustic

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULICS; METAL REFINERIES; OXIDATION; PHENOLS;

BIOLOGICAL OXIDATION; CAUSTICS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; SOLE SUBSTRATES;

HYDROGEN SULFIDE;

CAUSTIC AGENT; ETHANE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METHANETHIOL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; OXIDATION; PHENOL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REFINERY;

ARTICLE; DETOXIFICATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

EID: 8844276723     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2004.08.022     Document Type: Article

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