Partial nitrification/denitrification can be attributed to the slow response of nitrite oxidizing bacteria to periodic anoxic disturbances

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 7245-7253

  Kornaros, M ^a   Dokianakis, S N ^c   Lyberatos, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CONDITION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BATCH TYPE; BATCH TYPE REACTOR; CONTINUOUSLY STIRRED TANK REACTOR; ENZYMATIC MECHANISMS; ENZYME DEACTIVATION; INHIBITORY EFFECT; KINETIC MODELS; NITRIFICATION/DENITRIFICATION; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; OPERATING CONDITION; PILOT SCALE; REDUCED GROWTH RATE; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN REMOVAL;

BATCH REACTORS;

AMMONIA; NITRITE; NITROGEN;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DENITRIFICATION; GROWTH RATE; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITRITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXIDATION;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA; KINETICS; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 77957325756     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100564j     Document Type: Article

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