Kinetics of ammonium removal with suspended and immobilized nitrifying bacteria in different reactor systems

Chemosphere

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2939-2952

  Strotmann, Uwe J ^a   Windecker, Gunther ^b,c  

^a WESTPHALIAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Fachhochschule fur Technik   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonium degradation; Degradation kinetics; Immobilized bacteria; Nitrification; Nitrifying bacteria; Suspended bacteria

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DEGRADATION; IMMOBILIZED CELL; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030659840     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(97)00341-X     Document Type: Article

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