Heterotrophic denitrification plays an important role in N2O production from nitritation reactors treating anaerobic sludge digestion liquor

Water Research

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Qilin ^a   Jiang, Guangming ^a   Ye, Liu ^a   Pijuan, Maite ^a,b   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion liquor; Dissolved oxygen; Free nitrous acid; Heterotrophic denitrification; Nitritation; Nitrous oxide

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BATCH REACTORS; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; INORGANIC ACIDS; NITROGEN OXIDES; ORGANIC CARBON;

ANAEROBIC SLUDGE DIGESTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; FREE NITROUS ACIDS; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAS; HETEROTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION; NITRITATION; NITROUS OXIDE; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS;

SLUDGE DIGESTION;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; AIR POLLUTANT; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRITE; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

DENITRIFICATION; DIGESTIBILITY; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROUS OXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; SLUDGE;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; HETEROTROPH; HETEROTROPHY; LIQUID; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SLUDGE DIGESTION; SPARGING; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AIR POLLUTANT; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANALYSIS; BATCH CELL CULTURE; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AEROBIOSIS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BATCH CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; BIOREACTORS; DENITRIFICATION; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84902653250     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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