Simultaneous carbon and nitrogen removal in a mixed culture aerobic RBC biofilm

Water Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 555-561

  Gupta, A B ^a   Gupta, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Aerobic denitrification; Autotrophic; Carbon removal; Heterotrophic nitrification; Mixed culture biofilm; Nitrification; Nitrogen removal; Thiosphaera pantotropha

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN;

ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTACTORS (RBC);

BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITROGEN; SULFUR;

BIOFILM; CARBON; NITROGEN; REMOVAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DENITRIFICATION; DOMESTIC WASTE; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GADUS MORHUA; PARACOCCUS PANTOTROPHUS; THIOCYSTIS; THIOSPHAERA; THIOSPHAERA PANTOTROPHA;

EID: 0033080620     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(98)00206-1     Document Type: Article

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