Real-time PCR quantification of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB): Solids retention time (SRT) impacts during activated sludge treatment of industrial wastewater

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 507-520

  Kuo, David H W ^a,b   Robinson, Kevin G ^a,b   Layton, Alice C ^b   Meyers, Arthur J ^b,c   Sayler, Gary S ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB); AOB population structure dynamics; Industrial wastewater; Quantitative real time PCR; Solids retention time (SRT)

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GENES; WATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIA (AOB); AOB POPULATION STRUCTURE DYNAMICS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER; QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME PCR; SOLIDS RETENTION TIME (SRT);

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMOA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSOLID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS NITROSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REACTOR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLIDS RETENTION TIME; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS NITROSA;

EID: 33745596636     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2006.23.507     Document Type: Article

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