Dynamics of sustainable grazing fauna and effect on performance of gas biofilter

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-197

  Bhaskaran, Krishnakumar ^a   Nadaraja, Anupama Vijayakumari ^a   Balakrishnan, Manilal Vattackatt ^a   Haridas, Ajit ^a  

^a REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY CSIR   (India)

Author keywords

gas biofilter; grazing fauna; micrometazoa; nutrient recycling; population dynamics; pressure drop

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTERS; NUTRIENTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESSURE DROP; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOLUENE;

GAS BIOFILTERS; GRAZING FAUNA; MICROMETAZOA; NUTRIENT RECYCLING;

PROTOZOA;

CARBON DIOXIDE; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; CAENORHABDITIS; EUPLOTES; FAUNA; GRAZING; LARVA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; PSEUDOMONAS; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; CAENORHABDITIS; LARVA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMONAS; ROTIFERA; TOLUENE;

ACINERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CILIOPHORA; COLPODA INFLATA; ECHINISCUS; EUPLOTES HARPA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; PHILODINA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMONAS; ROTIFERA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 41549149928     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1263/jbb.105.192     Document Type: Article

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