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From Total Suspended Solids to Molecular Biology Tools—A Personal View of Biological Wastewater Treatment Process Population Dynamics
Author(s) -
Jenkins David
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
water environment research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1554-7531
pISSN - 1061-4303
DOI - 10.2175/106143008x276679
Subject(s) - wastewater , population , process (computing) , biochemical engineering , sewage treatment , biology , computational biology , microbiology and biotechnology , management science , computer science , engineering , environmental engineering , sociology , demography , operating system
The development of the tools needed to study the population dynamics of biological wastewater treatment processes is traced from its beginnings in the early 1900s to today's use of molecular biology tools (Oerther and Love, 2003). Examples of the benefits of population dynamics research in improving the performance and aiding the design and operation of biological wastewater treatment processes are given. Some thoughts on future areas of study are presented.