A Study on the Distribution of Nitrite Oxidation Microorganisms in a Biofilm Reactor

  • Yoon, Joung-Yee (Dept. of Environmemtal System Engineering, Hallym University) ;
  • Kim, Sun-Hee (Dept. of Environmemtal System Engineering, Hallym University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Jin (Dept. of Environmemtal System Engineering, Hallym University)
  • 발행 : 2005.04.15

초록

Biofilm airlift reactor was continuously operated to investigate the competitions between the autotrophs and heterotrophs, ammonia oxidizers and nitrite oxidizers, and Nitrobacter and Nitrospira with real wastewater at a C/N ratio of 0.86. As the reactor achieved complete nitrification microbial distribution was analyzed by FISH/CLSM technique. The results showed that heterotroph was more abundant than nitrifying bacteria. Ammonia oxidizers (17%) and Nitrobacter (7%) prevailed nitrite oxidizers (9%) and Nitrospira (2%), respectively.

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