Research advances and challenges in the microbiology of enhanced biological phosphorus removal - A critical review

Water Environment Research

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-219

  Gebremariam, Seyoum Yami ^a   Beutel, Marc W ^a   Christian, David ^b   Hess, Thomas F ^b  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhanced biological phosphorus removal; Glycogen accumulating organisms; Polyphosphate accumulating organisms; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOLOGY; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MICROBIOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; GLYCOGEN ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS; METABOLIC CAPACITIES; MICROBIAL COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL RESEARCH; POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT;

PHOSPHORUS;

HOLISTIC APPROACH; LITERATURE REVIEW; PHOSPHORUS; THEORETICAL STUDY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ECOLOGY; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79954507230     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143010X12780288628534     Document Type: Review

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