Successful application of nitritation/anammox towastewater with elevated organic carbon to ammonia ratios

Water Research

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 316-326

  Jenni, Sarina ^a   Vlaeminck, Siegfried E ^b   Morgenroth, Eberhard ^a,c   Udert, Kai M ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anammox; Biological nitrogen removal; Ca. Brocadia fulgida; Denitrification; Nitrification; Urine separation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; ORGANIC CARBON; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIAOXIDISING BACTERIA (AOB); ANAMMOX; BIODEGRADABLE ORGANIC CARBON; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN REMOVAL; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAS; HETEROTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL EFFICIENCY; NITROGENOUS WASTEWATERS;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

ACETIC ACID; AMMONIA; NITRITE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON;

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DENITRIFICATION; HETEROTROPHY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEPARATION; SUBSTRATE; URINE; WASTEWATER;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANAMMOX BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR OPERATION; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; TIME; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

" CA. BROCADIA FULGIDA"; ANAMMOX; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN REMOVAL; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; URINE SEPARATION;

AMMONIA; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SEWAGE; TIME FACTORS; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84890586826     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.073     Document Type: Article

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