Assessment of plausible bioindicators for plant performance in advanced wastewater treatment systems

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5059-5069

  Pérez Uz, Blanca ^a   Arregui, Lucía ^a   Calvo, Pilar ^a   Salvadó, Humbert ^b   Fernández, Natividad ^c   Rodríguez, Eva ^c   Zornoza, Andrés ^d   Serrano, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Grupo de Bioindicación de Sevilla GBS   (Spain)

^d Quart Benager WWTP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advanced wastewater treatments; Bioindicators; Nitrogen removal; Protists

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOMARKERS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROTOZOA; RECLAMATION;

CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITIES; PROTISTS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NITROGEN;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOINDICATOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CILIATE; FLAGELLATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CILIATE; EVALUATION; FLAGELLATE; HYPOTHESIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; SAMPLING; SLUDGE TREATMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

CILIOPHORA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA;

EID: 77957302747     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.07.024     Document Type: Article

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