Evaluation of the influence of extracellular polymeric substances on the mass transport of substrate within multispecies biofilms

Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 590-594

  Cao, Hongbin ^a,b   Li, Xingang ^b   Jiang, Bin ^b   Sun, Jinsheng ^b   Zhang, Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Effective diffusivity; Extracellular polymeric substance

Indexed keywords

POROSITY;

AUTOTROPHIC BIOFILMS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; HETEROTROPHIC BIOFILMS; MASS TRANSPORTS;

BIOFILMS;

POLYMER;

EID: 8644231732     PISSN: 10049541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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