Modelling the population dynamics and metabolic diversity of organisms relevant in anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic enhanced biological phosphorus removal processes

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4473-4486

  Oehmen, A ^a   Lopez Vazquez, C M ^b   Carvalho, G ^a,c   Reis, M A M ^a   van Loosdrecht, M C M ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL E TECNOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Candidatus Accumulibacter Phosphatis clades; Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH); Glycogen accumulating organisms (GAO); Kinetics; Model calibration; Polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAO)

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC WATER; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KINETIC PARAMETERS; METABOLISM; NITRATES; NITROGEN OXIDES; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACCUMULIBACTER; GLYCOGEN-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS; HYBRIDISATION; MODEL CALIBRATION; POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT;

ACETYL COENZYME A; GLYCOGEN; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; PHOSPHORUS; POLYPHOSPHATE; PROPIONYL COENZYME A;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; DENITRIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; OXIC CONDITIONS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENETICS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYSACCHARIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REACTION KINETICS; TRANSFORMATION;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DENITRIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACCUMULIBACTER PHOSPHATIS; CANDIDATUS COMPETIBACTER;

EID: 77955270649     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.06.017     Document Type: Article

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