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1 Introduction to anaerobic treatment
1.1 Applicability of anaerobic systems
1.2 Positive aspects
2 Principles of anaerobic digestion
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Microbiology of anaerobic digestion
2.3 Biochemistry of anaerobic digestion
2.4 Environmental requirements
3 Biomass in anaerobic systems
3.1 Preliminaries
3.2 Biomass retention in anaerobic systems
3.3 Evaluation of the microbial mass
3.4 Evaluation of th[...]

1 Introduction to anaerobic treatment
1.1 Applicability of anaerobic systems
1.2 Positive aspects
2 Principles of anaerobic digestion
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Microbiology of anaerobic digestion
2.3 Biochemistry of anaerobic digestion
2.4 Environmental requirements
3 Biomass in anaerobic systems
3.1 Preliminaries
3.2 Biomass retention in anaerobic systems
3.3 Evaluation of the microbial mass
3.4 Evaluation of the microbial activity
4 Anaerobic treatment systems
4.1 Preliminaries
4.2 Conventional systems
4.3 High-rate systems
4.4 Combined treatment systems
5 Design of anaerobic reactors
5.1 Anaerobic filters
5.2 Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors
6 Operational control of anaerobic reactors
6.1 Importance of operational control
6.2 Operational control of the treatment system
6.3 Start-up of anaerobic reactors
6.4 Operational troubleshooting
7 Post-treatment of effluents from anaerobic reactors
7.1 Applicability and limitations of the anaerobic technology
7.2 Main alternatives for the post-treatment of effluents from anaerobic reactors
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