Microthrix parvicella and gordona amarae in mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic digestion systems

Environmental Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 437-444

  Marneri, Matina ^a   Mamais, Daniel ^a   Koutsiouki, Efi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; FISH; Foaming potential; G. amarae; M. parvicella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOGAS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FISH; MEATS; PULP DIGESTERS; SLUDGE DIGESTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; BIOGAS PRODUCTION; DETENTION TIME; DUAL STAGE SYSTEMS; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOAMING POTENTIAL; G. AMARAE; GORDONA AMARAE; LABORATORY SCALE; M. PARVICELLA; MESOPHILIC; MICROTHRIX PARVICELLA; SINGLE STAGE; SLUDGE DEWATERABILITY; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMOPHILIC ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; THERMOPHILIC CONDITIONS; THERMOPHILIC DIGESTERS; VOLATILE SOLID;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

BIOGAS; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HYBRIDIZATION;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOAMING; GORDONIA AMARAE; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MICROTHRIX; NONHUMAN; SLUDGE DEWATERING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; DNA PROBE; GORDONIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEWAGE;

CANDIDATUS MICROTHRIX PARVICELLA; GORDONIA AMARAE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANAEROBIOSIS; DNA PROBES; GORDONIA BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEWAGE;

EID: 67649195845     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330902760631     Document Type: Article

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