Process optimization by decoupled control of key microbial populations: Distribution of activity and abundance of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms and nitrifying populations in a full-scale IFAS-EBPR plant

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3845-3854

  Onnis Hayden, Annalisa ^a   Majed, Nehreen ^a   Schramm, Andreas ^b   Gu, April Z ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AOB; BNR; EBPR; IFAS; NOB; PAOs

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; NITRIFICATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; EBPR; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; IFAS; INTEGRATED FIXED-FILM ACTIVATED SLUDGE; NITRIFICATION ACTIVITY; PAOS; POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

AMMONIA; PHOSPHORUS; POLYPHOSPHATE;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOFILM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOSPHORUS; RESIDENCE TIME;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; HETEROTROPH; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDIZER; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NITROSPIRA;

EID: 79959360155     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.04.039     Document Type: Article

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