Microfauna and Biomass of Activated Sludge and Biofilms of Municipal and Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plants
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: activated sludge microfauna and biomass; biodegradation of chemical substances and mixtures; biodeterioration; bioassays; microbiology of drinking water
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Dear Colleagues,
One century after the invention of the activated sludge process, the microscopic structure of flocs, together with biomass and microfauna composition, still represents an irreplaceable tool in the evaluation of plant performance and efficiency. Indexes based on Protozoa and Metazoa communities, bacteria identification techniques, and field tests for assessing the physical properties of sludge have been applied to wastewater treatment plants fed with municipal and industrial wastewater. Starting from the first applications to conventional carbon removal processes, this combined ecological and microbiological approach has been progressively extended to BNR (biological nutrient removal) systems based on activated sludge as well as MBBR (moving bed biological reactor) and MBR (membrane bio-reactor) systems.
Prof. Dr. Roberta Pedrazzani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomass
- ciliates
- filamentous bacteria
- protozoa
- metazoa
- floc-forming bacteria
- membrane bioreactor
- moving bed biological reactor
- sludge biotic index
- sludge index
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