Diverse and distinct bacterial communities induced biofilm fouling in membrane bioreactors operated under different conditions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 8360-8366

  Huang, Li Nan ^a,b   De Wever, Heleen ^a   Diels, Ludo ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COLLOIDS; CULTIVATION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUXES; FOULING; GELATION; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; MICROFILTRATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; BACTERIA; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; RNA;

16S RRNA GENES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; BIOFILM DEVELOPMENTS; BIOFILM FORMATIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITIONS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS ANALYSES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; HIGH FLUXES; HIGHER CONCENTRATIONS; MEMBRANE BIOFILMS; MEMBRANE BIOFOULING; MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS; MEMBRANE FLUXES; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANE SURFACES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROFILTRATION MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR APPROACHES; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; NATURAL PROCESSES; PHYLOTYPES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SELECTIVE ENRICHMENTS; SLUDGE AGES; SLUDGE RETENTION TIMES; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS;

MEMBRANES; BIOFILMS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ELECTROKINESIS; FILTRATION; GEL; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANKTON; RNA; SLUDGE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTEROIDETES; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; HABITAT; LABORATORY; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANKTON; POPULATION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA SEQUENCE; SAMPLE; SLUDGE; SPECIES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

16S RRNA GENE LIBRARIES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BIOFILM COMPOSITION; BIOFILM DEVELOPMENT; BIOFILM FORMATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; HIGH FLUX; LABORATORY SCALE; MEMBRANE BIOFOULING; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE FLUXES; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MICRO-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MOLECULAR APPROACH; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; NATURAL PROCESS; PHYLOTYPES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SELECTIVE ENRICHMENT; SLUDGE AGE; SLUDGE RETENTION TIME; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS;

EID: 56449127294     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801283q     Document Type: Article

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