Nitrous oxide emission from nitrifying activated sludge dependent on denitrification by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3958-3963

  Kim, Sang Wan ^a   Miyahara, Morio ^a   Fushinobu, Shinya ^a   Wakagi, Takayoshi ^a   Shoun, Hirofumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB); Denitrification; Nitrification; Nitrifier denitrification; Nitrous oxide (N2O)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIA (AOB); DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMATE; HETEROTROPHIC DENITRIFIERS; MODEL SYSTEM; NITRIFICATION PROCESS; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITROUS OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; PIGGERY EFFLUENT; PURE CULTURE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANESTHETICS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOACTIVITY; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DENITRIFICATION;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; HYDROXYLAMINE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; DENITRIFICATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION; REACTION KINETICS; SUBSTRATE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROTROPH; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; NITROUS OXIDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE;

NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 76749136136     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.01.030     Document Type: Article

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