Chemical nitrite oxidation in acid solutions as a consequence of microbial ammonium oxidation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4066-4075

  Udert, Kai M ^a,b   Larsen, Tove A ^a   Gujer, Willi ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PH EFFECTS; REACTION KINETICS; UREA; VAPORIZATION;

ALLYLTHIOUREA; AMMONIUM NITRITE; DINITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE;

OXIDATION;

ACID; ALLYLTHIOUREA; AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; THIOUREA DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MEMBRANE; NITRITE; OXIDATION;

ACID TOLERANCE; AERATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PH; REACTOR; VOLATILIZATION;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN; NITROUS ACID; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TIME FACTORS; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 20044383204     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048422m     Document Type: Article

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