Temperature dependent (37-15°C) anaerobic digestion of a trichloroethylene-contaminated wastewater

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7645-7656

  Siggins, Alma ^a   Enright, Anne Marie ^a   O'Flaherty, Vincent ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DGGE; Low temperature anaerobic digestion; QPCR; Specific methanogenic activity and toxicity; Trichloroethylene

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC GRANULAR BIOMASS; ARCHAEAL; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; CLONE LIBRARY; COD REMOVAL; COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DGGE; EXPANDED GRANULAR SLUDGE BED; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; QPCR; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REMOVAL RATE; SPECIFIC METHANOGENIC ACTIVITY AND TOXICITY; STABLE OPERATION; TCE CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

ANESTHETICS; CLONING; ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WASTEWATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

RNA 16S; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ADAPTATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COLD TOLERANCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LOW TEMPERATURE; METHANOGENIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLUDGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLONE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLUDGE BLANKET REACTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79960846790     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.05.055     Document Type: Article

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