A constructed alkaline consortium and its dynamics in treating alkaline black liquor with very high pollution load.

Paper pulp wastewater resulting from alkaline extraction of wheat straw, known as black liquor, is very difficult to be treated and causes serious environmental problems due to its high pH value and chemical oxygen demand (COD) pollution load. Lignin, semicellulose and cellulose are the main contrib...

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Main Authors: Chunyu Yang, Guangchun Cao, Yang Li, Xiaojun Zhang, Hongyan Ren, Xia Wang, Jinhui Feng, Liping Zhao, Ping Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2582485?pdf=render