The Microbiology of Activated Sludge

1999
ISBN: 978-0-412-79380-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 422 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1012 g

This book has been a long time in preparation. Initially it grew out of our frustrating attempts over the past ten years to identify the filamentous bacteria seen in large numbers in most activated sludge plants, and the realization that we know very little about them and the other microbial populations in these systems. Unfortunately this book does not provide many answers to the problems these filamentous bacteria can cause, but we hope it might encourage microbiologists and engineers to communi­ cate more with each other and to spend some time trying to understand the tax­ onomy, ecology and physiology of activated sludge microbes. It is now very timely, for example, to try to provide these filamentous bacteria with proper taxonomically valid names and to determine their correct place in bacterial classifications. This book is not meant to compete directly with the books by Gray (1989, 1990) nor the excellent manual published by Jenkins and coworkers (1993b), which has been invaluable to us and others trying to identify filamentous bacteria. Wanner's book (1994a) also provides an excellent account of the problems of bulking and foaming caused by filamentous bacteria. These publications and others by Eikelboom's group have made an enormous contribution to the study of filamentous bacteria, and will con­ tinue to do so.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blackall, L.

Seviour, Robert J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abwasseraufbereitung, Abwasserentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Abfall- und Bodenschutzrecht
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Proteinforschung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction to the microorganisms found in activated sludge processes.- 2The activated sludge process.- 3The normal microbial communities of activated sludge plants.- 4Factors affecting the occurrence of filamentous bacteria in activated sludge plants.- 5Current taxonomic status of filamentous bacteria found in activated sludge plants.- 6Bulking.- 7Foaming.- 8 The microbiology of nitrogen removal in activated sludge systems.- 9 Microbiological aspects of phosphorus removal in activated sludge systems.- 10Practical methods for the examination and characterization of activated sludge.- 11Descriptions of the filamentous bacteria causing bulking and foaming in activated sludge plants.