Stable performance of non-aerated two-stage partial nitritation/anammox (PANAM) with minimal process control

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 425-432

  Bagchi, Samik ^a,b   Biswas, Rima ^a   Vlaeminck, Siegfried E ^b   Roychoudhury, Kunal ^c   Nandy, Tapas ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Seth Kesarimal Porwal College Nagpur   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRATE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; EFFLUENT; ENERGY COST; LOADING TEST; NITRATION; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL NITRITATION ANAMMOX; PROCESS CONTROL; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; KINETICS; NITRITES; OXYGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84859851685     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2012.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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