Moderate temperature increase leads to disintegration of floating sludge and lower abundance of the filamentous bacterium Microthrix parvicella in anaerobic digesters

Water Research

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 203-212

  Lienen, T ^a   Kleybocker A ^a   Verstraete, W ^b   Wurdemann H ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biogas digester; DGGE; Floating sludge; Microthrix parvicella; QPCR; Temperature increase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOGAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; BIOGAS DIGESTERS; DGGE; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; FLOATING SLUDGE; M. PARVICELLA; MICROTHRIX PARVICELLA; MODERATE TEMPERATURE; QPCR; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

BIOGAS; CALCIUM; RNA 16S; VOLATILE FATTY ACID; BIOFUEL; SEWAGE;

ABUNDANCE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOGAS; DIGESTION; ELECTROKINESIS; FLOATING BODY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLUDGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ACIDIFICATION; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROTHRIX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLUDGE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOTOGACEAE; THICKNESS; ACTINOBACTERIA; BIOREACTOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BIOFUELS; BIOREACTORS; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 84905648422     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.07.019     Document Type: Article

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