Effects of bacterivorous ciliated protozoans on degradation efficiency of a petrochemical activated sludge process

Water Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2051-2060

  Holubar, Peter ^a   Grudke, Tanja ^a   Moser, Andreas ^a   Strenn, Birgit ^a   Braun, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Ciliates; Crude oil; Petrochemical sewage; Protozoa; Suspended growth system

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BRINES; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DEGRADATION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); HYDROCARBONS; PETROCHEMICALS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TURBIDITY;

BACTERIVOROUS CILIATED PROTOZOANS; BATCH CULTURE; PETROCHEMICAL SEWAGE; SALINE SEWAGE; SELECTED TYPE STRAINS;

PROTOZOA;

HYDROCARBON; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIODEGRADATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WASTE WATER;

CILIOPHORA; COHNILEMBUS; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; URONEMA MARINUM; URONEMA NIGRICANS;

EID: 0033975904     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(99)00378-4     Document Type: Article

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