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Project

Transition management of bacterial and archaeal nitrification

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3F011111

Duration

01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Nico Boon

Fellow

Emilie Courtens

Research disciplines

Engineering and technology
- Environmental microorganism biotechnology

Keywords

ammonia oxidizing archaea nitrification sandfilter

Project description

It was recently discovered that besides ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB), also ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA) play a role in nitrification. Although AOA have characteristics potentially rendering them more suitable for application than AOB, these have not been explored yet. In this project, boundary values of physicochemical AOA-promotors/AOB-suppressors will be identified to transit from bacterial to archaeal nitrification in a slow sandfilter.

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