Treatment of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) using ozonation combined with integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS)

Water Research

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 167-176

  Huang, Chunkai ^a   Shi, Yijing ^a   Gamal El Din, Mohamed ^a   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioreactors; Integrated fixed film activated sludge (IFAS); Oil sands process affected water (OSPW); Ozonation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILMS; DENITRIFICATION; GENES; OIL SANDS; OZONE; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE REACTORS; ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; CONFOCAL-LASER-SCANNING-MICROSCOPY; CYCLIZATIONS; EXTRACTABLES; INTEGRATED FIXED-FILM ACTIVATED SLUDGE; NAPHTHENIC ACID; OIL SAND PROCESS-AFFECTED WATER; OIL SANDS PROCESS-AFFECTED WATERS;

OZONIZATION;

AOMA PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; NAPHTHENIC ACID; NARG PROTEIN; NIRK PROTEIN; NIRS PROTEIN; NITRO PROTEIN; NOSZ PROTEIN; NSR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBOXYLIC ACID; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OZONE; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CULTIVATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OIL SAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLUDGE; TECHNOLOGY;

ACID EXTRACTABLE FRACTION; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM; EXTRACTION; FIXED FILM REACTOR; FLOCCULATION; FRACTIONATION; INTEGRATED FIXED FILM ACTIVATED SLUDGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYER; NONHUMAN; OIL SANDS PROCESS AFFECTED WATER; OZONATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAR SAND; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METABOLISM; MINING; OIL AND GAS FIELD; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFILMS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GENES, BACTERIAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; OZONE; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84940379151     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.08.019     Document Type: Article

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