Code
01D30918
Duration
01 October 2018 → 30 September 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields not elsewhere classified
- Computer architecture and networks not elsewhere classified
- Distributed computing not elsewhere classified
- Information sciences not elsewhere classified
- Information systems not elsewhere classified
- Programming languages not elsewhere classified
- Scientific computing not elsewhere classified
- Theoretical computer science not elsewhere classified
- Visual computing not elsewhere classified
- Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
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Engineering and technology
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering not elsewhere classified
- Chemical product design and formulation not elsewhere classified
- Modelling, simulation and optimisation
- Process engineering not elsewhere classified
- Separation and membrane technologies not elsewhere classified
- Sustainable and environmental engineering not elsewhere classified
- Transport phenomena not elsewhere classified
- Other (bio)chemical engineering not elsewhere classified
Keywords
wastewater treatment
granular sludge
denitrification
lab-scale experiments
physical-based modelling
numerical simulation
Project description
This doctoral research project focuses on sulfide-based nitrogen removal from anaerobically pretreated municipal wastewater. The first research line concerns the optimization of sulfide-based nitrogen removal over nitrate in granular sludge reactors. The second research line aims at the realization and optimization of a short-cut sulfide-based nitrogen removal process over nitrite. Reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases N2O and methane, constitutes the third objective.