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Electro-dewatering EDW

Dewatering technology based on electro-osmotic separation
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Electro-osmosis

Electrophoretic process by which water moves through a porous medium under the influence of a direct electric field by virtue of a solid-solution interfacial electrical potential
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Endogenous respiration

Oxidation by aerobic micro-organisms of some of their own cellular mass, rather than of other organic carbon food sources
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Exothermic

Heat-generating
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Extended aeration process

Adaptation of the CAS process with increased residence time to promote further degradation of the biological solids by endogenous respiration

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