A better understanding of microbiology and ecology of nitrifying bacteria in inner biofilms is an important part of improving process performance and control. Microelectrodes and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) in biofilm research have been used to investigate the spatial distributions of various microbial activities in biofilms and have led to new experimental findings as well as modifications of the homogeneous assumptions in the biofilm kinetic models. The objective of this study is to try the combination of two methods, both FISH and microelectrode measurements, and to provide reliable and in situ information on nitrifying bacterial activity in biofilms. The characteristics of biofilm developed on tygon slides were different according to the change of dissolved oxygen (DO). When the DO increased from 2 to 10 μg DO/L, the rate of the biofilm thickness increased and its dry density changed from 50-70 to 25-90 mg/cm3. Ammonia oxidizing bacteria were not uniformly distributed in biofilm, and were found at the deeper layer where oxygen is depleted, they were detected primarily in the upper and middle layers of the biofilm.
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January 01 2003
Effect of dissolved oxygen concentration on the biofilm and in situ analysis by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and microelectrodes
A. Jang;
A. Jang
*Department of Environ. Sci. and Eng., Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology (K-JIST), 1 Oryong-dong, Puk-gu, Kwangju 500-712, Korea.
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P.L. Bishop;
P.L. Bishop
**Department of Civil Eng., Univ. of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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S. Okabe;
S. Okabe
***Department of Urban and Env. Eng., Graduate School of Eng., Hokkaido Univ., North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0813, Japan
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S.G. Lee;
S.G. Lee
*Department of Environ. Sci. and Eng., Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology (K-JIST), 1 Oryong-dong, Puk-gu, Kwangju 500-712, Korea.
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I.S. Kim
*Department of Environ. Sci. and Eng., Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology (K-JIST), 1 Oryong-dong, Puk-gu, Kwangju 500-712, Korea.
Corresponding author. E-mail: iskim@kjist.ac.kr
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Water Sci Technol (2003) 47 (1): 49–57.
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A. Jang, P.L. Bishop, S. Okabe, S.G. Lee, I.S. Kim; Effect of dissolved oxygen concentration on the biofilm and in situ analysis by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and microelectrodes. Water Sci Technol 1 January 2003; 47 (1): 49–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2003.0014
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