Acute and chronic responses of activated sludge viability and performance to silica nanoparticles

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 7182-7188

  Zheng, Xiong ^a   Su, Yinglong ^a   Chen, Yinguang ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; CHRONIC EFFECTS; CHRONIC EXPOSURE; CRITICAL FACTORS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); DENITRIFYING BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; POLYPHOSPHATES; POTENTIAL HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; TOTAL NITROGEN;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEALTH RISKS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EXOPOLYPHOSPHATASE; GLYCOGEN; NANOPARTICLE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHORUS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; POLYPHOSPHATE KINASE; SILICA NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENITRIFICATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ELECTROKINESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILICA; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SLUDGE TREATMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; DENITRIFICATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE; SILICON DIOXIDE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84863503059     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300777b     Document Type: Article

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