Sulfide and methane production in sewer sediments

Water Research

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 350-359

  Liu, Yiwen ^a   Ni, Bing Jie ^a   Ganigué, Ramon ^a,b   Werner, Ursula ^a   Sharma, Keshab R ^a   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Methane; Microbial profiling; Modelling; Sediment; Sewer; Sulfide

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; COMBINED SEWERS; DEPTH PROFILING; METHANE; MODELS; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTS; SEWERS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION; CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; HALF-ORDER KINETICS; LABORATORY REACTORS; METHANE PRODUCTION; MICROBIAL PROFILING; SEDIMENT SURFACE; SULFIDE;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

METHANE; SULFATE; SULFIDE; WATER; SEWAGE;

BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; METHANE; ORGANIC CARBON; POREWATER; REACTION KINETICS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEWER NETWORK; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; REACTOR; SEDIMENT; SEWER; WASTE WATER; ANALYSIS; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROFLORA; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOREACTORS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METHANE; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEWAGE; SULFATES; SULFIDES;

EID: 84919918181     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.12.019     Document Type: Article

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