Effect of the length of the cycle on biodegradable polymer production and microbial community selection in a sequencing batch reactor

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1064-1073

  Dionisi, Davide ^a   Majone, Mauro ^a   Vallini, Giovanni ^b   Di Gregorio, Simona ^b   Beccari, Mario ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTORS; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROORGANISMS;

ORGANIC LOADING RATE; ORGANIC WASTES; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS (SBR);

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS;

POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SEWAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; SEWAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35348854346     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp060370c     Document Type: Article

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