Replicating the microbial community and water quality performance of full-scale slow sand filters in laboratory-scale filters

Water Research

Volumn 61, Issue , 2014, Pages 141-151

  Haig, Sarah Jane ^a   Quince, Christopher ^a   Davies, Robert L ^a   Dorea, Caetano C ^b   Collins, Gavin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

COD; DOC; Drinking water; Evenness; I SSF; L SSF; Multivariate analysis; Slow sand filter; Spatial change; SSF; SUVA; Temporal change; TVB

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LABORATORIES; MICROORGANISMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTABLE WATER; RNA; SAND; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EVENNESS; L-SSF; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; SLOW SAND FILTERS; SPATIAL CHANGES; SUVA; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

PASSIVE FILTERS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; SILICON DIOXIDE;

BIOASSAY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FILTER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SAMPLING; SAND; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; FULL SCALE SLOW SAND FILTER; GENE REPLICATION; LABORATORY SCALE SLOW SAND FILTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; NONHUMAN; PLANCTOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAND; VERRUCOMICROBIA; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FILTRATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PROCEDURES; WATER MANAGEMENT; LABORATORY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FILTRATION; MICROBIOTA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84901924297     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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