Aerobic Granular Biomass
The following definition differentiates an aerobic granule from a simple floc with relatively good settling properties and came out of discussions which took place at the “1st IWA-Workshop Aerobic Granular Sludge” in Munich (2004):
“Granules making up aerobic granular activated sludge are to be understood as aggregates of microbial origin, which do not coagulate under reduced hydrodynamic shear, and which settle significantly faster than activated sludge flocs”(de Kreuk et al. 2005)"Read more about this topic: Aerobic Granulation
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