Nitritation performance and biofilm development of co- and counter-diffusion biofilm reactors: Modeling and experimental comparison

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2699-2709

  Wang, Rongchang ^a,b   Terada, Akihiko ^a   Lackner, Susanne ^a   Smets, Barth F ^a   Henze, Mogens ^a   Xia, Siqing ^b   Zhao, Jianfu ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Biofilm development; Co diffusion; Counter diffusion; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Membrane aerated biofilm reactor; Nitritation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIOFILM DEVELOPMENT; BIOFILM REACTOR; CODIFFUSION; CONDITION; COUNTER DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE-AERATED BIOFILM REACTOR; NITRITATION; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITROGEN CONVERSION;

BIOFILMS;

AMMONIA; NITRITE; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MASS TRANSFER; NITRITE; SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFILM REACTOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITRITATION; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 65649096012     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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