COD Removal Index for Predicting Organic Removal Performance of Macrophyte-Assisted Vermifilters during Process Scale-Up

Abstract

AbstractCurrently, no dimensionless mechanistic mathematical index is available in the literature that can be exploited for the scale-up of the macrophyte-assisted vermifiltration (MAVF) technology by predicting its chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal ...A nondimensional COD removal index (CRI) was developed to predict the COD removal from an MAVF system, irrespective of the operating conditions and wastewater type, for the process scale-up. To develop the CRI, the dimensionless analysis of the critical ...