Partial nitrification achieved by pulse sulfide doses in a sequential batch reactor

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 8715-8720

  Erguder, Tuba H ^a   Boon, Nico ^a   Vlaeminck, Siegfried E ^a   Verstraete, Willy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BATCH REACTORS; COLLOIDS; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GELATION; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA OXIDIZERS; AMMONIUM NITROGENS; ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATIONS; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARCHAEAL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATIONS; MIXING CONDITIONS; OXIDIZING BACTERIA; PARTIAL NITRIFICATIONS; PH CONTROLS; REMOVAL RATES; SEQUENTIAL BATCH REACTORS; SULFIDE CONCENTRATIONS;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; SULFIDE;

AMMONIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ELECTROKINESIS; GEL; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE; NITROGEN; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SULFIDE;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROBACTER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AEROBIOSIS; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; ELECTROPHORESIS; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFIDES;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 57449118935     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801391u     Document Type: Article

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