Biological phosphorus removal in activated sludge systems is thought to be a result of the action of polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAO). However, not all phosphorus removed can be accounted for by PAO. A method for the qualitative in situ characterization of PAO cell clusters and closely associated extracellular exopolymers (EPS) is described. X-ray microanalysis was performed on sample...

Background: Qual2k is a stream water quality model and was used to evaluate the water quality of the Kine-Vars River and assess the response of the river to nutrient management strategies. Methods: For that purpose, 7 sample stations were selected and surface water samples were collected in the winter and summer of 2012 and were analyzed for temperature, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen dem...

Thingstad et al. (Reports, 12 August 2005, p. 1068) reported that in situ mesoscale phosphorus enrichment of the eastern Mediterranean Sea altered selected biological parameters and concluded that the added phosphorus was rapidly transferred from bacteria to mesozooplankton. However, because of a lack of replication and a misinterpretation of their statistical analyses, that conclusion is not s...

The inhibitory effects of antibiotics (tetracycline, doxycycline, amoxicillin), an anti-inflammatory (ibuprofen) and an analgesic (paracetamol) on the via nitrite nitrogen and phosphorus removal processes were investigated. Biomass was collected from a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) and was spiked with fixed pharmaceutical concentrations (i.e. 50-500 mgL). Then, batch activity tests were conduc...

in order to evaluate effects of water stress and foliar application humic acid on quantities and qualitative in borage, a field experiment was conducted as a split plots design with three replication in 2012 at agricultural research station, university of zabol. water stress treatments included control or 90 percent of field capacity (w1), 70 percent field capacity (w2) and 50 percent field cap...

to study the effects of mycorrhiza fungi and humic substances on yield and yield components of corn (zea mays l. var. s.c. 704) under limited irrigation condition, an experiment was conducted in split plot arrangement based on rcbd in four replications at the research farm of university of tehran (karaj-iran) in 2011. the main factor consisted of three irrigation levels i.e. normal (irrigation ...

Previous research has demonstrated that post-anoxic denitrification and biological nutrient removal could be achieved in the oxic/anoxic/extended-idle wastewater treatment regime. This study further investigated the effect of different carbon sources on post-anoxic denitrification and biological nutrient removal. Acetate, propionate (volatile fatty acids (VFAs)), glucose (carbohydrate), methano...