Achieving nitrogen removal via nitrite pathway from urban landfill leachate using the synergetic inhibition of free ammonia and free nitrous acid on nitrifying bacteria activity

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2035-2041

  Sun, H W ^a   Bai, Y ^a   Peng, Y Z ^b   Xie, H G ^c   Shi, X N ^d  

^a LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Dalian Municipal Design and Research Institute Co Ltd   (China)

^d Intl Eng Inst of Light Indust   (China)

Author keywords

FISH; Free ammonia; Free nitrous acid; Landfill leachate; Nitritation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FREE AMMONIA; FREE NITROUS ACIDS; LANDFILL LEACHATES; NITRITATION; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITROGEN REMOVAL VIA NITRITES; UPFLOW ANAEROBIC SLUDGE BLANKETS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FISH; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INORGANIC ACIDS; NITRATION; NITRIFICATION;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITRITE; NITROGEN; NITROUS ACID;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; INHIBITION; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; METHANOGENESIS; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITRITE; NITROGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; URBAN DRAINAGE;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANOXIC OXIC REACTOR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INOCULATION; LANDFILL LEACHATE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; REACTOR; REACTOR OPERATION; UPFLOW REACTOR; URBAN AREA;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NITROGEN CYCLE; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84890175865     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2013.432     Document Type: Article

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