Algal uptake of hydrophobic and hydrophilic dissolved organic nitrogen in effluent from biological nutrient removal municipal wastewater treatment systems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 713-721

  Liu, Haizhou ^a   Jeong, Joonseon ^a,c   Gray, Holly ^b   Smith, Scott ^b   Sedlak, David L ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BIOASSAYS; ALGAL GROWTH; ALGAL UPTAKE; ANION EXCHANGE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; EFFLUENT DISCHARGE; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC; INCUBATION PERIODS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL NITROGEN; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS; WATER QUALITY MODELS;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EFFLUENTS;

ANION EXCHANGE RESIN; NITRATE; ORGANIC NITROGEN;

ALGA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; EFFLUENT; FRACTIONATION; GROWTH RATE; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION EXCHANGE; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TIMESCALE; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ALGAL BLOOM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ESTUARY; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INCUBATION TIME; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIOREACTORS; CHLOROPHYTA; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; NITROGEN; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

ALGAE;

EID: 84862969032     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203085y     Document Type: Article

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