Closing Domestic Nutrient Cycles Using Microalgae

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 12450-12456

  Vasconcelos Fernandes, Tânia ^a   Shrestha, Rabin ^a   Sui, Yixing ^a,d   Papini, Gustavo ^a   Zeeman, Grietje ^b   Vet, Louise E M ^a   Wijffels, Rene H ^b,c   Lamers, Packo ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^d Air and Water Technology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOMASS; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOMASS CONCENTRATIONS; CHLORELLA SOROKINIANA; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; NITROGEN REMOVAL RATES; NUTRIENT CYCLE; PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN REMOVAL; POST TREATMENT; SCREENING EXPERIMENTS;

WATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; WASTE WATER;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; MICROALGA; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER;

ACUTODESMUS OBLIQUUS; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CELL VOLUME; CHLORELLA SOROKINIANA; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRY WEIGHT; FOOD INDUSTRY; MACROMOLECULE; MICROALGA; NETHERLANDS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT CYCLE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; CHEMISTRY; CHLORELLA; DEVICES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

ALGAE; CHLORELLA SOROKINIANA; CYANOBACTERIA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOMASS; CHLORELLA; MICROALGAE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOBIOREACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84944931149     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02858     Document Type: Article

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