Long-term operation of a partial nitritation pilot plant treating leachate with extremely high ammonium concentration prior to an anammox process

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 5624-5632

  Ganigué, Ramon ^a   Gabarró, Jordi ^a   Sànchez Melsió, Alexandre ^a   Ruscalleda, Maël ^a   López, Helio ^a   Vila, Xavier ^a   Colprim, Jesús ^a   Balaguer, M Dolors ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonium oxidising bacteria (AOB); Heterotrophic denitrification; Nitrite oxidising bacteria (NOB); Operational strategy; Partial nitritation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM OXIDISING BACTERIA (AOB); HETEROTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDISING BACTERIA (NOB); OPERATIONAL STRATEGY; PARTIAL NITRITATION;

BACTERIOLOGY; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; NITROGEN REMOVAL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PILOT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA; NITRITE; ORGANIC MATTER;

AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; LEACHATE; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; LANDFILL LEACHATE; NITRATION; NITROSOMONAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CITIES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITRITES; NITROSOMONAS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

NITROSOMONAS SP.;

EID: 68649085102     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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