Biomass characteristics of two types of submerged membrane bioreactors for nitrogen removal from wastewater

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3313-3320

  Liang, Zhihua ^a   Das, Atreyee ^a   Beerman, Daniel ^a   Hu, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating anoxic aerobic; Membrane bioreactor; Microbial community structure; Nitrifying bacterial activity; QPCR

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC BACTERIA; BIOCONVERSION; EFFICIENCY; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURFACE TREATMENT;

ALTERNATING ANOXIC/AEROBIC; ANOXIC/AEROBIC; BACTERIALS ACTIVITIES; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES' DIVERSITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MIXED LIQUOR RECIRCULATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; QPCR; SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS;

BIOREACTORS;

NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOFILM; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITROGEN; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM REACTOR; BIOFOULING; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROTROPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77953024489     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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