Distributions and activities of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and polyphosphate accumulating organisms in a pumped-flow biofilm reactor

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4599-4609

  Wu, Guangxue ^a   Nielsen, Michael ^a   Sorensen, Ketil ^a   Zhan, Xinmin ^a   Rodgers, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Micro sensors; Microbial distributions; Polyphosphate accumulating organisms; Pumped flow biofilm reactor

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BATCH REACTORS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; BIOFILM REACTOR; CARBON REMOVAL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICRO SENSORS; MICROBIAL DISTRIBUTION; POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS; PUMPED-FLOW BIOFILM REACTOR; REACTOR SYSTEMS; SURFACE ZONES;

BIOFILMS;

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POLYPHOSPHATE;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GROWTH; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOFILM REACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NITRIFICATION; POLYPHOSPHATE ACCUMULATING ORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; TANK; TIME; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER;

NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 71749121832     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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