Sloughing and limited substrate conditions trigger filamentous growth in heterotrophic biofilms-Measurements in flow-through tube reactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2723-2732

  Garny, Kerstin ^a,b   Neu, Thomas R ^b   Horn, Harald ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Filamentous growth; Sloughing; Tube reactor

Indexed keywords

A DENSITIES; BACTERIAL GROWTHS; BIO-FILM THICKNESS; BIOFILM DEVELOPMENT; BIOFILM STABILITIES; BIOFILM STRUCTURES; COMMUNITY COMPOSITIONS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CRITICAL FACTORS; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; FILAMENTOUS GROWTH; FLOW-THROUGH; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; HETEROTROPHIC BIOFILMS; HIGH-FLOW RATES; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; PLANKTONIC BACTERIA; PROCESS STABILITIES; RE CIRCULATIONS; SLOUGHING; STRUCTURAL CHANGES; SUBSTRATE CONDITIONS; SUBSTRATE CONVERSIONS; SUBSTRATE LIMITATIONS; TUBE REACTOR;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILTERS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LASERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SCANNING; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BIOFILMS;

EID: 67349096751     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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