Seasonal variations of nitrifying community in trickling filter-solids contact (TF/SC) activated sludge systems

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2272-2279

  Datta, Tania ^a   Racz, LeeAnn ^b   Kotay, Shireen Meher ^c   Goel, Ramesh ^c  

^a CH2M HILL   (United States)

^b Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Nitrification; Nitrite oxidizing bacteria; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; DNA SAMPLES; NITRIFYING POPULATION; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSPIRA SPP; SAMPLING LOCATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER MONTHS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; TRICKLING FILTER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIA; DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; POLYMORPHISM; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

AMMONIA; DNA; NITRATE; NITRITE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FILTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA EXTRACTION; LIQUID; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLID CONTACT BASIN PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUMMER; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRICKLING FILTER; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; NITROBACTER; NITROGEN; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEWAGE;

NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSPIRA;

EID: 78650807521     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.10.043     Document Type: Article

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