Enhancement of rural domestic sewage treatment performance, and assessment of microbial community diversity and structure using tower vermifiltration

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 9462-9470

  Wang, Longmian ^a   Guo, Feihong ^a   Zheng, Zheng ^b   Luo, Xingzhang ^b   Zhang, Jibiao ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Domestic wastewater; Nutrient removal; Polymerase chain reaction denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR DGGE); Vermifilter

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; BAND PATTERNS; DOMESTIC SEWAGE TREATMENT; DOMESTIC WASTE WATER TREATMENT; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; EISENIA FETIDA; FIRMICUTES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION-DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (PCR-DGGE); REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; VERMIFILTER;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MICROORGANISMS; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; TOWERS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SEWAGE TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS;

AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DICOTYLEDON; EARTHWORM; EFFLUENT; ELECTROKINESIS; FILTRATION; GEL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; EISENIA FETIDA; FIRMICUTES; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PENSTEMON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; VERMIFILTRATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; FILTRATION; SEWAGE;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EISENIA FETIDA; FIRMICUTES; PENSTEMON CAMPANULATUS;

EID: 80052756397     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.07.085     Document Type: Article

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