Treatment of effluents polluted by nitrogen with new biological technologies based on autotrophic nitrification-denitrification processes

Recent Patents on Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 74-84

  Gonzalez Martinez A ^a   Poyatos, J M ^a   Hontoria, E ^a   Gonzalez Lopez, J ^a   Osorio, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological nutrient removal; Deammonification; Nitrogen removal; Partial nitritation anammox system; Sharon process; Sludge; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENTS; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANAMMOX; AUTOTROPHICS; BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY; DEAMMONIFICATION; PARTIAL NITRITATION; PARTIAL NITRITATION/ANAMMOX SYSTEM; SHARON PROCESS; SLUDGE; TREATMENT SYSTEMS;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITROGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROUS ACID; PHOSPHORUS;

ALKALINITY; ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; ANAEROBIC REACTOR; ANOXIC DEAMMONIFICATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; COMPLETELY AUTOTROPHIC NITROGEN REMOVAL OVER NITRITE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENITRIFICATION; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN LIMITED AUTOTROPHIC NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION; PH; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SINGLE REACTOR SYSTEM FOR HIGH ACTIVITY AMMONIA REMOVAL OVER NITRITE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 79960614224     PISSN: 18722083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187220811796365671     Document Type: Article

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