Low temperature partial nitritation/anammox in a moving bed biofilm reactor treating low strength wastewater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 8784-8792

  Gilbert, Eva M ^a   Agrawal, Shelesh ^a   Karst, Søren M ^b   Horn, Harald ^a   Nielsen, Per H ^b   Lackner, Susanne ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; RNA; TEMPERATURE;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; LOW STRENGTH WASTEWATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTORS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; TEMPERATURE DECREASE;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; NITRITE; RNA 16S; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; WASTE WATER;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAMMOX BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOFILM REACTOR; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTOR; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHYLUM; REACTOR OPERATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; COLD; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DENITRIFICATION; NITRITES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84905647723     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501649m     Document Type: Article

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