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Activated Sludge and Other Aerobic Suspended Culture Processes

Charles J. Moretti    
Dipesh Das    
Brian T. Kistner    
Harvey Gullicks and Yung-Tse Hung    

Resumen

A review of the literature published in 2008, 2009 and 2010 relating to activated sludge treatment of wastewater is presented. The review considers information on the topics of modeling and kinetics; process microbiology; nitrogen and phosphorus removal; treatment and effects of xenobiotics; oxygen transfer; and solids separation.

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