Linking floc structure and settling properties to activated sludge population dynamics in an SBR

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 9-18

  Govoreanu, R ^a   Seghers, D ^a   Nopens, I ^a   De Clercq, B ^a   Saveyn, H ^a   Capalozza, C ^a   Van Der Meeren, P ^a   Verstraete, W ^a   Top, E ^b   Vanrolleghem, Peter A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

DGGE; Floc size distribution; Population dynamics; Sequencing batch reactor; Sludge volume index

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LASER CHEMISTRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; RNA; SETTLING TANKS;

FLOC STRUCTURE;

SLUDGE DISPOSAL;

RNA 16S;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; FLOC; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SETTLING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0042123817     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2003.0622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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