Metabolic pathway of anaerobic ammonium oxidation on the basis of 15N studies in a fluidized bed reactor

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2415-2421

  Van De Graaf, Astrid A ^a,b   De Bruijn, Peter ^a   Robertson, Lesley A ^a   Jetten, Mike S M ^a   Kuenen, J Gijs ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPULS Science and Technology Center   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ammonium oxidation; Hydrazine; Hydroxylamine; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; HYDROXYLAMINE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN 15;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FLUIDIZED BED; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 0030795645     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-7-2415     Document Type: Article

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