High-Rate Sulfate Reduction at High Salinity (up to 90 mS.cm-1) in Mesophilic UASB Reactors

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 226-235

  Vallero, Marcus V G ^a   Sipma, Jan ^a   Lettinga, Gatze ^a   Lens, Piet N L ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acetate; Bioaugmentation; Desulfobacter halotolerans; Ethanol; Halotolerant SRB; High salinity; Propionate; Sulfate reduction; UASB reactor

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL; GRANULAR MATERIALS; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SULFUR; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

GRANULAR SLUDGE; ORGANIC LOADING; SULFATE REDUCTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; PROPIONIC ACID; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DESULFOBACTER HALOTOLERANS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION KINETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REDUCTION KINETICS; SALINITY; SALT MARSH; SLUDGE TREATMENT; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SULFUR BACTERIUM; TIME; UPFLOW REACTOR; WASTE WATER;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEWAGE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFATES; WATER PURIFICATION;

DESULFOBACTER; DESULFOBACTER HALOTOLERANS; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 1842421140     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.20040     Document Type: Article

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