Showing papers by "Ch. Comninellis published in 1988"
01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: In this paper, the main methods for analyzing organic material in waste water are: (1) analytical methods for analysing organic material, such as CO2, H2O, N2 (or NO3 −), Cl− and SO4 −.
Abstract: Besides inorganic materials (acids, bases and salts), industrial waste water also contains organic substances which have to be “mineralized”, i.e. oxidized to CO2, H2O, N2 (or NO3 −), Cl− and SO4 −, before the water can be discharged. The main methods for analyzing organic material in waste water are:
TOC
total organic carbon
[mg C/l]
COD
chemical oxygen demand
[mg O/l]
BOD5
biological oxygen demand in five days
[mg O/l]
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