Experimental evaluation of decrease in bacterial activity due to cell death and activity decay in activated sludge

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3604-3612

  Hao, Xiaodi ^a   Wang, Qilin ^a   Zhang, Xiangping ^a   Cao, Yali ^a   Mark Loosdrecht, C M van ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (China)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activity decay; Cell death; Decay rate; Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Live dead staining; Oxygen uptake rate (OUR)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BACTERIA; BATCH REACTORS; CELL DEATH; DECAY (ORGANIC); FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NITRIFICATION; RNA;

ACTIVITY DECAYS; DECAY RATE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVE/DEAD STAINING; OXYGEN UPTAKE RATES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

RNA 16S;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROTROPHY; HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; OXYGEN; POPULATION DECLINE; RNA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 67649975220     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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