Assessment of a bioaugmentation strategy with polyphosphate accumulating organisms in a nitrification/denitrification sequencing batch reactor

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7678-7684

  Tayà, Carlota ^a   Guisasola, Albert ^a   Baeza, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Bioaugmentation; Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR); Nitrogen removal; Polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAO)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS; ANAEROBIC/AEROBIC; BIO-AUGMENTATION; BIOLOGICAL REMOVAL; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; NITRIFICATION/DENITRIFICATION; PHOSPHORUS ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS; POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATCH REACTORS; BIOLOGY; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; RETROFITTING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT;

POLYPHOSPHATE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOREACTOR; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAUGMENTATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM; POLYPHOSPHATE ACCUMULATING ORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SLUDGE TREATMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BIOREACTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NITRIFICATION; POLYPHOSPHATES; SEWAGE;

EID: 79960837853     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.05.041     Document Type: Article

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