Modelling microbial population dynamics in nitritation processes

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 938-949

  Giusti, Elisabetta ^a   Marsili Libelli, Stefano ^a   Spagni, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activated sludge modelling; Microbial kinetics; Nitritation; Parameter estimation; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE MODEL NO. 3; BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; BIOLOGICAL OXIDATIONS; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; CRITICAL PROCESS CONDITIONS; DATA SETS; ENGINEERING IMPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; IDENTIFIABILITY; LANDFILL LEACHATES; MICROBIAL CHARACTERISTICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL KINETICS; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODIFIED MODEL; NEW MODEL; NEW PROCESS; NITRIFICATION-DENITRIFICATION; NITRITATION; NITRITATION PROCESS; NITROGEN REMOVAL PROCESS; PARAMETER VALUES; PARAMETRIC CHANGES; PARAMETRIC VARIATION; PILOT SCALE; PROCESS CONDITION; RESPIRATION RATE; SAVING ENERGY; SENSITIVE PARAMETER; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT INDUSTRY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATCH REACTORS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CALIBRATION; DENITRIFICATION; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; MODELS; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXIDATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 79953072076     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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