Long-term effects of operating temperature and sulphate addition on the methanogenic community structure of anaerobic hybrid reactors

Water Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 619-630

  Pender, Seán ^a   Toomey, Margaret ^a   Carton, Micheál ^a   Eardly, Dónal ^a   Patching, John W ^a   Colleran, Emer ^a   O'Flaherty, Vincent ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Anaerobic hybrid reactor; ARDRA; Methanogenic; Specific methanogenic activity; Sulphate; Sulphide toxicity; Thermophilic

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOGAS; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DNA; ECOLOGY; GENES; METHANE; METHANOGENS; RNA; SULFATE MINERALS;

OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS (OTU);

WATER ANALYSIS;

ACETIC ACID; BIOGAS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN; METHANE; MOLASSES; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFATE; WATER;

ANAEROBIC PROCESS; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; GRANULAR MEDIUM; SULFATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SAMPLING; SLUDGE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER;

GADUS MORHUA; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOCORPUSCULUM; METHANOCORPUSCULUM PARVUM; METHANOSAETA; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS; OTUS;

EID: 0347948605     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2003.10.055     Document Type: Article

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