Filamentous organisms in activated sludge

✍ Scribed by Alena Sladká; Vlasta Ottová

• Book ID: 104613947
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 804 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00015352

✦ Synopsis

Activated sludge, as an aerobic environment rich in organic matter, often provides the optimum conditions for the development of colourless filaments . From the taxonomic point of view, these colourless filaments can be divided into three groups of basic characteristics : bacteria, cyanophyceae and fungi . The effort to distinguish these three groups is not only inspired by the endeavour to classify them taxonomically correctly, but rather by possible different physiological efficiencies of the individual groups. This may be their basic significance for the determination of technical parameters of the activated sludge process .

Recently great attention has been paid to colourless filamentous organisms . Fundamental taxonomic work was done mainly on materials isolated from the sea or brackish water, and one of the distinguishing features was the cultivation on synthetic media and the introduction of several cytochemical reactions (