Effect of hydraulic and organic loads in sequencing batch reactor on microbial ecology of activated sludge and storage of polyhydroxyalkanoates

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Volumn 20, Issue , 2010, Pages 187-192

  Villano, Marianna ^a   Lampis, Silvia ^b   Valentino, Francesco ^a   Vallini, Giovanni ^b   Majone, Mauro ^a   Beccari, Mario ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTORS; ECOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FOOD SUPPLY; MICROORGANISMS;

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; ORGANIC LOAD RATES; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; POLYMER PRODUCTION RATE; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

EID: 78650372013     PISSN: 22839216     EISSN: 22839216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3303/CET1020032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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