Long term/low dose formalin exposure to small-scale recirculation aquaculture systems

Aquacultural Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Pedersen, Lars Flemming ^a   Pedersen, Per B ^a   Nielsen, Jeppe L ^b   Nielsen, Per H ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ammonia and nitrite oxidizing bacteria; Biofilter; Effluent; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Formaldehyde; Nitrification; Treatment strategy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AQUACULTURE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FORMALIN; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; LONG TERM; LOW DOSE; MICROBIAL COMPOSITION; NITRIFICATION RATES; NITRIFICATION TREATMENT; NITRIFYING BACTERIA; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSPIRA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; OXIDATION RATES; PILOT SCALE; RAINBOW TROUT; RECIRCULATIONS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; REMOVAL RATE; SURFACE AREA; TREATMENT STRATEGY;

AGRICULTURE; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILTERS; BIOFILTRATION; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

FORMALDEHYDE;

BIOFILM; BIOINDICATOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FORMALDEHYDE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SALMONID CULTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROBACTER; NITROBACTER SP.; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NITROSPIRA SP.; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 72749085783     PISSN: 01448609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaeng.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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