Home > Industry/Domain > Environment
Environment
Issues related to the circumstances or condition of the earth's natural surroundings.
9Categories 46865Terms
Add a new termContributors in Environment
Environment > Pollution 
mixed liquor volatile suspended solids (MLVSS)
Environment; Pollution
"MVLSS is generally defined as the microbiological suspension in the aeration tank of an activated-sludge biological wastewater treatment plant. The biomass solids in a ...
enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR)
Environment; Pollution
The common element in EBPR implementations is the presence of an anaerobic tank (nitrate and oxygen are absent) prior to the aeration tank. Under these conditions a group of ...
reduced phosphorus
Environment; Pollution
It was termed any phosphorus species with an oxidation state lower than (+5) "reduced phosphorus", including phosphites [hypophosphite P(I) and phosphite P(III)] ...
biological removal of phosphorus
Environment; Pollution
"In the biological removal of phosphorous, the phosphorous in the influent wastewater is incorporated into cell biomass, which is subsequently removed from the process as a ...
haze
Environment; Pollution
"An atmospheric condition marked by a slight reduction in atmospheric visibility, resulting from the formation of photochemical smog, radiation of heat from the ground ...
hydrofluorocarbons
Environment; Pollution
"Used as solvents and cleaners in the semiconductor industry, among others; experts say that they possess global warming potentials that are thousands of times greater than ...
facultative bacteria
Environment; Pollution
"An organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation or anaerobic respiration if oxygen is absent."
Sub-categories
- Biodiversity (2834)
- Environment statistics (18270)
- Environmental conservation (14127)
- Environmental policy (4979)
- Filter (86)
- Land preservation (469)
- Pollution (2318)
- Radiation hazards (3625)
- Waste management (1217)