Microbial ecology and performance of ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in biological processes treating petrochemical wastewater with high strength of ammonia: Effect of Na2CO3 addition

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-231

  Whang, L M ^a   Yang, K H ^a   Yang, Y F ^a   Han, Y L ^b   Chen, Y J ^c   Cheng, S S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c San Ying Enterprises Co Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alkalinity; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Industrial wastewater; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; HIGH STRENGTH; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER; LOW CARBON; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTORS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OPERATION MODE; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PETROCHEMICAL WASTEWATER; PH CONTROL; PILOT SCALE; POWDER ACTIVATED CARBON; T-RFLP; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; WASTEWATER CHARACTERISTICS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; ALKALINITY; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PETROCHEMICALS; PH EFFECTS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SODIUM; WASTEWATER;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALKALINITY; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; BUFFERING; CARBONATE; DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PH; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CARBONATES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 60849097551     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.848     Document Type: Article

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