Bacterial response to a continuous long-term exposure of silver nanoparticles at sub-ppm silver concentrations in a membrane bioreactor activated sludge system

Water Research

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 350-358

  Zhang, Chiqian ^a   Liang, Zhihua ^a,b   Hu, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane bioreactor (MBR); Nitrifying bacterial community structure; Nitrogen removal; Quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Silver nanoparticles; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOCONVERSION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANE FOULING; METAL IONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERS; RECLAMATION; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE BIO REACTOR (MBR); QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILVER; WASTE FACILITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; FOULING CONTROL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSPIRA;

MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR (MBR); NITRIFYING BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NITROGEN REMOVAL; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AEROBIOSIS; AMMONIA; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; BIOPOLYMERS; BIOREACTORS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PRESSURE; SEWAGE; SILVER; TIME FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84892505476     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.047     Document Type: Article

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