Analysis of Nitrification Efficiency and Microbial Community in a Membrane Bioreactor Fed with Low COD/N-Ratio Wastewater

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Ma, Jinxing ^a   Wang, Zhiwei ^a   Zhu, Chaowei ^b   Liu, Shumeng ^a   Wang, Qiaoying ^a   Wu, Zhichao ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BIOREACTOR; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RNA GENE; WASTE WATER;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROBIOTA; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84877138797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063059     Document Type: Article

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