Differential distribution of ammonia- and nitrite-oxidising bacteria in flocs and granules from a nitrifying/denitrifying sequencing batch reactor

Enzyme and Microbial Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1392-1398

  Carvalho, Gilda ^a,b   Meyer, Rikke L ^a,c   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a   Keller, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Portugal)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aerobic granules; Ammonium oxidation; Flocs; Microbial population distribution; Nitrite oxidation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COAGULATION; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROSENSORS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXIDATION;

BATCH REACTORS; FLOCS; GRANULES; MICROBIAL POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; OXIDIZING;

BIOREACTORS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMMONIUM UPTAKE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DEPLETION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GROWTH RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NITRATE UPTAKE; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTOR OPERATION; SENSOR; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SLUDGE;

EID: 33748946545     PISSN: 01410229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2006.03.024     Document Type: Article

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