Micropollutant biotransformation kinetics associate with WWTP process parameters and microbial community characteristics

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 10579-10588

  Helbling, Damian E ^a   Johnson, David R ^a,b   Honti, Mark ^a   Fenner, Kathrin ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA REMOVAL; ARCHAEAL; BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS; BIOTRANSFORMATION KINETICS; BIOTRANSFORMATION REACTIONS; FOUR-ORDER; ISOPROTURON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL PROCESS; MICROPOLLUTANTS; MONOOXYGENASE ACTIVITIES; MONOOXYGENASES; ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACETYLENE; AMMONIA; BATCH REACTORS; LIGHTING; RATE CONSTANTS;

BIOCONVERSION;

ACETYLENE; AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ISOPROTURON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PROKARYOTE; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATE; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KINETICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ACETYLENE; AMMONIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84867085924     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3019012     Document Type: Article

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