Microthrix parvicella abundance associates with activated sludge settling velocity and rheology - Quantifying and modelling filamentous bulking

Water Research

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-132

  Wágner, Dorottya S ^a   Ramin, Elham ^a   Szabo, Peter ^a   Dechesne, Arnaud ^a   Plósz, Benedek Gy ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Filamentous bacteria abundance; Hindered, transient and compression settling velocity; QFISH; Rheology analysis and sludge viscosity; Secondary settling tank

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; RHEOLOGY; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA ABUNDANCE; FILAMENTOUS BULKING; HINDERED, TRANSIENT AND COMPRESSION SETTLING VELOCITY; QFISH; RHEOLOGY ANALYSE AND SLUDGE VISCOSITY; SECONDARY SETTLING TANKS; SETTLING VELOCITY; SLUDGE VISCOSITY;

CALIBRATION;

RNA 16S; SEWAGE;

ABUNDANCE; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MIXING RATIO; MODEL TEST; RHEOLOGY; SETTLING VELOCITY; TRANSPORT PROCESS; VISCOSITY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHLOROFLEXI; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROTHRIX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; SLUDGE SETTLING; VELOCITY; VISCOMETRY; ACTINOBACTERIA; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CANDIDATUS MICROTHRIX PARVICELLA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS);

ACTINOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RHEOLOGY; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 84928726517     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.04.003     Document Type: Article

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