Code
01DI4415
Duration
01 September 2015 → 30 April 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
- Chemical product design and formulation
- General chemical and biochemical engineering
- Process engineering
- Separation and membrane technologies
- Sustainable and environmental engineering
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
Keywords
simulation
partial nitritation-anammox
lab-scale experiments
full-scale monitoring
anammox
nitrous oxide
granular sludge
methane
modeling
greenhouse gas
Project description
This doctoral research project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (N2O, CH4 and CO2) during wastewater treatment by optimizing conventional nitrogen removal systems and by applying innovative nitrogen removal (anammox-based) technologies. The treatment of both high-strenght and lowstrength ammonium wastewaters is studied. The applied methodologies concerns a full-scale monitoring campaign, lab-scale experiments, mathematical modelling and simulation.