Is ammonification the rate limiting step for nitrification kinetics?

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 114, Issue , 2012, Pages 117-125

  Katipoglu Yazan, Tugce ^a   Ubay Cokgor, Emine ^a   Insel, Güçlü ^a   Orhon, Derin ^a,b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Turkish Academy of Sciences   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ammonification; Hydrolysis; Modeling; Nitrification; Respirometry

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA NITROGEN; AMMONIA RELEASE; AMMONIFICATION; CARBON REMOVAL; DOMESTIC SEWAGE; HYDROLYSIS KINETICS; KINETIC BALANCE; MODEL ANALYSIS; MODEL CALIBRATION; NITRIFICATION INHIBITOR; NITRIFICATION KINETICS; NITRIFYING BIOMASS; OXYGEN UPTAKE RATES; RATE COEFFICIENTS; RATE LIMITING; RATE-LIMITING STEPS; RESPIROMETRY; SEPARATE ANALYSIS;

AMMONIA; DENITRIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MODELS; OXIDATION; SEWAGE;

NITRIFICATION;

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PEPTONE;

AMMONIFICATION; CALIBRATION; DOMESTIC WASTE; HYDROLYSIS; INHIBITOR; MAGNITUDE; NITRIFICATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; SUBSTRATE; WASTEWATER;

AMMONIFICATION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; HYDROLYSIS; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEPTONES;

EID: 84860448279     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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