Effect of sludge age on the bacterial diversity of bench scale sequencing batch reactors

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2950-2956

  Akarsubasi, Alper Tunga ^a   Eyice, Ozge ^a   Miskin, Ian ^b   Head, Ian M ^b   Curtis, Thomas P ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; BACTERIAL DIVERSITIES; CELL RESIDENCE TIME; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DETECTION LIMITS; DICE COEFFICIENTS; EFFLUENT QUALITIES; IN BANDS; IN CONTROLS; LABORATORY-SCALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITIES; MICROPOLLUTANT; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; SELF SIMILARITIES; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SLUDGE AGES; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; AMMONIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; EFFLUENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; GELATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BATCH REACTORS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; ELECTROKINESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RESIDENCE TIME; SLUDGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASTE TREATMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOMASS; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EFFLUENT; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; MEAN CELL RESIDENCE TIME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; REACTOR MONITORING; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SLUDGE; SLUDGE TREATMENT; TIME; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 65249145974     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8026488     Document Type: Article

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