Ammonium removal by the oxygen-limited autotrophic nitrification- denitrification system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4500-4506

  Kuai, Linping ^a   Verstraete, Willy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS;

EID: 0031788052     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4500-4506.1998     Document Type: Article

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