The confounding effect of nitrite on N2O production by an enriched ammonia-oxidizing culture

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7186-7194

  Law, Yingyu ^a,b   Lant, Paul ^a   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; CONCENTRATION RANGES; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; DO CONCENTRATION; NITRITATION; NITROUS OXIDE; PRODUCTION RATES;

BACTERIA;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRITE; NITROUS OXIDE;

AMMONIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; LIQUID; NONHUMAN;

AMMONIA; BIOREACTORS; NITRITES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN;

EID: 84880131176     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4009689     Document Type: Article

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