Ammonium concentrations in produced waters from a mesothermic oil field subjected to nitrate injection decrease through formation of denitrifying biomass and anammox activity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4977-4987

  Cornish Shartau, Sabrina L ^a   Yurkiw, Marcy ^a   Lin, Shiping ^a   Grigoryan, Aleksandr A ^a   Lambo, Adewale ^a   Park, Hyung Soo ^a   Lomans, Bart P ^b   Van Biezen, Erwin Der ^c   Jetten, Mike S M ^c   Voordouw, Gerrit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b EPT RO   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; ANAMMOX; ANAMMOX ACTIVITY; COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS FIELDS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFYING BACTERIA; DISSIMILATORY NITRATE REDUCTION; NITRATE INJECTION; NITRATE REDUCTION; NITRATE-REDUCING BACTERIA; PCR PRODUCTS; PRODUCED WATER; SPECIFIC PRIMERS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; NITRATES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OIL FIELDS; RNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WELLS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIAL DNA; NITRATE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SULFIDE; WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CLONE; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROKINESIS; MICROCOSM; OIL FIELD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; BACTERIA;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFIDES; WATER;

ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DENITROVIBRIO; KUENENIA; SULFURIMONAS; THAUERA;

EID: 77955580276     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00596-10     Document Type: Article

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