Denitrification with natural gas and various new growth media

Water Research

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 3723-3734

  Rajapakse, J P ^a   Scutt, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Etapak plastic media; IP spacers; Methane; Methanol; Methanotrophs; Methylotrophs; Natural gas; Pall rings; Sand filtration

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BACTERIA; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; METHANE; METHANOL; NATURAL GAS; SAND;

BIOLOGICAL DENITRIFICATION; METHANOTROPHS; METHYLOTROPHS;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

NATURAL GAS;

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; DENITRIFICATION; NATURAL GAS; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENITRIFICATION; FILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033486423     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(99)00088-3     Document Type: Article

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