Operational boundaries for nitrite accumulation in nitrification based on minimum/maximum substrate concentrations that include effects of oxygen limitation, pH, and free ammonia and free nitrous acid inhibition

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 335-342

  Park, Seongjun ^a   Bae, Wookeun ^b   Rittmann, Bruce E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN REMOVAL; DO CONCENTRATION; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; FREE AMMONIA; KEY FACTORS; NITRITATION; NITRITE ACCUMULATION; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITROUS ACID; OXYGEN LIMITATION; SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; FLOWCHARTING; INORGANIC ACIDS; NITRATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

PH EFFECTS;

AMMONIA; NITRITE; NITROUS ACID; OXYGEN;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; INHIBITION; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; PH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; EFFLUENT; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PH MEASUREMENT; STEADY STATE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRITES; NITROUS ACID; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN;

EID: 75349087125     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9024244     Document Type: Article

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