Interaction of operational and physicochemical factors leading to Gordonia amarae-like foaming in an incompletely nitrifying activated sludge plant

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8165-8175

  Asvapathanagul, Pitiporn ^a   Huang, Zhonghua ^b,c   Gedalanga, Phillip B ^d   Baylor, Amber ^e   Olson, Betty H ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Water Quality Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PLANTS; AMMONIUM IONS; BACTERIAL CELLS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL CONCENTRATIONS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; FOOD-TO-MASS RATIO; GORDONIA; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHANGES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL FACTORS; PRIMARY EFFLUENT; PSEUDO STEADY STATE; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SOLIDS RETENTION TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WATER RECLAMATION PLANTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CELLS; EFFLUENTS; NITRIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING;

CYTOLOGY;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FOAM; GROWTH RATE; NITRIFICATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; DNA SEQUENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES; BACTERIAL LOAD; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GORDONIA AMARAE;

EID: 84870799637     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00404-12     Document Type: Article

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