Bacterial colonization of pellet softening reactors used during drinking water treatment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1041-1048

  Hammes, Frederik ^a   Boon, Nico ^b   Vital, Marius ^a   Ross, Petra ^c   Magic Knezev, Aleksandra ^d   Dignum, Marco ^e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Het Waterlaboratorium   (Netherlands)

^e Waternet   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL STABILIZATION; BIOMASS CONCENTRATIONS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER; DRINKING WATER QUALITY; DRINKING WATER TREATMENT; DRINKING WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; DRINKING WATER TREATMENT PROCESS; FLOW-CYTOMETRIC ANALYSIS; FLUIDIZED PELLET REACTORS; NORMAL CONDITION; PELLET SOFTENING; SEEDING MATERIALS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; FLUIDIZATION; ORE PELLETS; ORGANIC CARBON; PELLETIZING; POTABLE WATER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); WATER HARDNESS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

EFFLUENTS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON; WATER;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CALCIUM; CARBON; COLONIZATION; DRINKING WATER; ELECTROKINESIS; PH; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DRINKING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SANITATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON; DRINKING; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SOFTENING; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79551482512     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02068-10     Document Type: Article

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