ISSN:
1432-0614
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
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Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Summary A mathematical model for a total organic carbon-monitored, completely mixed activated sludge process for the treatment of a mixed domestic and laboratory waste water is discussed and experimentally calibrated. The first-order kinetic model was better suited to fit the experimental data than the Monod model. Values obtained for the sludge yield, Y, and the first-order kinetic constant, kL, agree with analogous data calculated from the literature. Hence, total organic carbon can be used, exclusively, to measure both organic waste load and biological solids, as an advantageous alternative to either biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, or volatile suspended solids, in monitoring, in deriving operational conditions, and/or in quantifying a mathematical description of a waste-water treatment process.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00500851
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