Isotope signatures of N2O in a mixed microbial population system: Constraints on N2O producing pathways in wastewater treatment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1339-1348

  Wunderlin, Pascal ^a   Lehmann, Moritz F ^b   Siegrist, Hansruedi ^a   Tuzson, Béla ^c   Joss, Adriano ^a   Emmenegger, Lukas ^c   Mohn, Joachim ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOLOGICAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGENS; HIGH-PRECISION; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; MICROBIAL TRANSFORMATION; MIXED MICROBIAL POPULATION; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NITROUS OXIDE; PILOT SCALE; PRODUCTION PATHWAYS; PURE CULTURE; QUANTUM CASCADES; REAL TIME; REDUCTASE ACTIVITY; SITE PREFERENCES;

DENITRIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SUBSTRATES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

REDUCTION;

AMMONIA; HYDROXYLAMINE; ISOTOPE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIUM; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TRANSFORMATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BATCH PROCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; MEASUREMENT; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTRUM; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BATCH CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DENITRIFICATION; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; ISOTOPE LABELING; NITRITES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84873445001     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303174x     Document Type: Article

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