Long-term low DO enriches and shifts nitrifier community in activated sludge

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5109-5117

  Liu, Guoqiang ^a   Wang, Jianmin ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NITRIFICATION PERFORMANCE; NITRIFICATION PROCESS; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OXYGEN TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; SOLIDS RETENTION TIME;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BACTERIA; DECAY (ORGANIC); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

NITRIFICATION;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRITE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMINANCE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EFFLUENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOLID RETENTION TIME; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; BIOREACTORS; NITRIFICATION; NITROBACTER; OXYGEN; SEWAGE;

EID: 84878230902     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304647y     Document Type: Article

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