Efficient total nitrogen removal in an ammonia gas biofilter through high-rate OLAND

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 8826-8833

  De Clippeleir, Haydée ^a   Courtens, Emilie ^a   Mosquera, Mariela ^a   Vlaeminck, Siegfried E ^a   Smets, Barth F ^b   Boon, Nico ^a   Verstraete, Willy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA GAS; AMMONIA REMOVAL; DOWN FLOWS; EMPTY BED RESIDENCE TIME; GAS TREATMENT; GASEOUS STREAMS; HIGH RATE; LOADING RATE; POST-DENITRIFICATION; PROFILE MEASUREMENT; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL NITROGEN REMOVAL; WATER FLOW RATE;

AMMONIA; DENITRIFICATION; GASES; LOADING; OXYGEN;

BIOFILTERS;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; BIOFILTRATION; DENITRIFICATION; FILTER; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMMONIUM OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; ANAMMOX BACTERIA; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; BATCH REACTOR; BIOFILTER; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; OXYGEN LIMITED AUTOTROPHIC NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATION;

AMMONIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FILTRATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84865491849     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301717b     Document Type: Article

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