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19464355

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-10-12
pubmed:abstractText
Microbial granules play an important role in the field of biological wastewater treatment due to their advantages over the conventional sludge flocs, such as a denser and stronger aggregate structure, better settleability and ensured solid-effluent separation, higher biomass concentration, and greater ability to withstand shock loadings. A better understanding of microbial granules may help in engineering biological wastewater treatment systems. Recent studies have greatly expanded our vision over the physicochemical characteristics of microbial granules. This paper provides an up-to-date review on recent work in the understanding of physicochemical characteristics of both anaerobic and aerobic granules with regard to settleability, permeability, morphology, mechanical stability, rheology, porosity, surface adsorbability, surface hydrophobicity and thermodynamics, and extracellular polymeric substances. Our growing knowledge on such characteristics might facilitate the engineering and optimization of microbial granulation as one of the most promising techniques in biological wastewater treatment.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1873-1899
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1061-70
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Physicochemical characteristics of microbial granules.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't