Bacterial community structure in a biofilter used as a pretreatment for seawater desalination

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 370-381

  Jeong, Sanghyun ^a   Bae, Hyokwan ^b   Naidu, Gayathri ^a   Jeong, Dawoon ^b   Lee, Seockheon ^b   Vigneswaran, Saravanamuthu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bacterial community; Biofilter; PCA; Pretreatment; Seawater; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; PCA; PRE-TREATMENT; SEAWATER DESALINATION; T-RFLP; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS;

ANTHRACITE; BACTERIA; DESALINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA; SEAWATER; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SULFUR; WATER FILTRATION;

BIOFILTERS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ANTHRACITE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILTRATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESALINATION; FRAGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; POLYMORPHISM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84885439727     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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