Improvement strategy on enhanced biological phosphorus removal for municipal wastewater treatment plants: Full-scale operating parameters, sludge activities, and microbial features

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4646-4653

  Zhang, Zhijian ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Zhu, Jun ^b   Weiping, Liu ^a   Xin, Xu ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

EBPR activity; Microbial population; Municipal wastewater; Operational parameters

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULIBACTER; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AEROBIC P-UPTAKE; ANAEROBIC P-RELEASE; BATCH TESTS; COMPETIBACTER; EBPR ACTIVITY; EFFLUENT QUALITY; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; FIELD SURVEYS; GLYCOGEN-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL POPULATION; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SLUDGE ACTIVITY; TOTAL BIOMASS; WATER ECOLOGY;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ECOLOGY; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT;

PHOSPHORUS;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOMASS; FIELD SURVEY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACCUMULIBACTER; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHINA; COMPETIBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; FIELD STUDY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER QUALITY;

BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHOSPHORUS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

CANDIDATUS COMPETIBACTER;

EID: 79951943597     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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