Single-step nitrification models erroneously describe batch ammonia oxidation profiles when nitrite oxidation becomes rate limiting

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 396-406

  Chandran, Kartik ^a   Smets, Barth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biokinetics; Dual rate limitation; Extant respirometry; Nitrification; Single step modeling

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; RATE CONSTANTS;

BIOKINETICS; EXTANT RESPIROMETRY; NITRIFICATION MODELS; NITRITE OXIDATION;

CELL CULTURE;

AMMONIA; NITRITE; SODIUM AZIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NITRIFICATION; RESPIROMETRY;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034690735     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(20000520)68:4<396::AID-BIT5>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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