Hydroxylamine diffusion can enhance N2O emissions in nitrifying biofilms: A modeling study

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1486-1494

  Sabba, Fabrizio ^a   Picioreanu, Cristian ^b   Pérez, Julio ^b,c   Nerenberg, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DIFFUSION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GAS PLANTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXYGEN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; HYDROXYLAMINE OXIDATIONS; LOW DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRIFYING BIOFILMS; NITRITE REDUCTION; SUSPENDED GROWTH SYSTEMS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

NITRIFICATION;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HYDROXYLAMINE; NITRITE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN;

AMMONIA; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIFFUSION; GROWTH RATE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANAMMOX BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; REACTOR; REDUCTION; SLUDGE; THICKNESS;

NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84964213221     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5046919     Document Type: Article

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