Effect of long-term idle periods on the performance of sequencing batch reactors

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-113

  Morgenroth, E ^a   Obermayer, A ^b   Arnold, E ^b   Bruhl A ^b   Wagner, M ^b   Wilderer, P A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decay; Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH); Gene probes; Idle period; Lysis; Sequencing batch reactor (SBR)

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); NITROGEN; OXIDATION; PERFORMANCE; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SLUDGE STORAGE;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

AMMONIA; NITRITE; NITROGEN;

NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE TEST; REMOVAL; SLUDGE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DENITRIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0033950689     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2000.0018     Document Type: Article

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