Performance of a pilot-scale packed bed reactor for perchlorate reduction using a sulfur oxidizing bacterial consortium

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 637-646

  Boles, Amber R ^a,b   Conneely, Teresa ^c   McKeever, Robert ^b   Nixon, Paul ^b   Nüsslein, Klaus R ^d   Ergas, Sarina J ^b,e  

^a Tighe and Bond Inc   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d Impact Area Groundwater Study Program   (United States)

^e University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological sulfur oxidation; Consortium microbiology; Groundwater; Massachusetts Military Reservation; Packed bed reactor; Perchlorate

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CONSORTIUM; BATCH CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; DISPROPORTIONATIONS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN REMOVALS; ELEMENTAL SULFUR; EMPTY BED CONTACT TIME; GROWTH OF BACTERIA; MASSACHUSETTS; MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY RESERVATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OYSTER SHELL; PACKED BED REACTOR; PERCHLORATE; PILOT SCALE; PILOT SYSTEM; QUALITY PROFILE; SCALE-UP; SODIUM SULFITE; SULFATE REDUCTION; SULFUR OXIDATION;

AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; BATCH CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PACKED BEDS; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; SULFUR; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

PEBBLE BED REACTORS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUND WATER; PERCHLORATE; SODIUM SULFITE; SULFUR;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALKALINITY; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLOROMONAS AGITATA; DEGRADATION; DEOXYGENATION; EFFLUENT; FLOW RATE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; NONHUMAN; PACKED BED REACTOR; PH; PILOT STUDY; REDUCTION; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

BIOREACTORS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MASSACHUSETTS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERCHLORIC ACID; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFITES; SULFUR; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OSTREIDAE;

EID: 84855967672     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.24354     Document Type: Article

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