Fate of selected estrogens in two laboratory scale sequencing batch reactors fed with different organic carbon sources under varying solids retention times

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 110, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-42

  Racz, LeeAnn ^a   Muller, James G ^b   Goel, Ramesh K ^c  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogens; Microbial community structure; Nitrification; Solids retention time (SRT); Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL POPULATION; CARBON OXIDATION; DIVERSE COMMUNITY; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; LABORATORY SCALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; RETENTION TIME; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; SOLIDS RETENTION TIME; SOLIDS RETENTION TIME (SRT);

DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

GLUCOSE;

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GLUCOSE; ORGANIC CARBON;

AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LABORATORY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC CARBON OXIDATION; ORGANISMS BY CARBON SOURCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SOLID RETENTION TIME; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; CARBON; ESTROGENS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84858284431     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.01.059     Document Type: Article

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