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Yuanpeng Wang1, Jiyuan Cai, Jianghuang Lan

  • 1Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Key Laboratory for Synthetic Biotechnology of Xiamen City, Xiamen University, Xiamen, PR China.

Bioresource Technology
|September 17, 2013
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Keywords:
Activated sludgeCODDGGEDOHBHRTHVMLVSSMPCCMPCTMicrobial communityP(HB/HV)P(HB/HV) yieldPCRPHAsPHBPHVSBRSRTSubstrate compositionTCA cycleVSSXY(P(HB/HV))biomasschemical oxygen demanddenaturing gradient-gel-electrophoresisdissolved oxygenhydraulic retention timehydroxybutyratehydroxyvaleratemaximum P(HB/HV) concentrationmaximum P(HB/HV) contentmixed liquor volatile suspended solidpoly(hydroxybutyrate-hydroxyvalerate)polyhydroxyalkanoatespolyhydroxybutyratepolyhydroxyvaleratepolymerase chain reactionq(P(HB/HV))q(s)sequencing biological reactorsolid retention timespecific P(HB/HV) synthesis ratespecific substrate consumptiontricarboxylic acid cyclevolatile suspended solid

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